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Fragrant Harbour John Lanchester

Fragrant Harbour von John Lanchester

Fragrant Harbour John Lanchester

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Zusammenfassung

This is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span 70 years in Asia. The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the horrors of the Japanese occupation during World War II; and the post-war boom and transformation of Hong Kong all surface in this epic novel.

Fragrant Harbour Zusammenfassung

Fragrant Harbour John Lanchester

Fragrant Harbouris the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last seventy years. Tom Stewart leaves England just before it is hit by the Great Depression to seek his fortune, and finds it in running Hong Kong's best hotel. Sister Maria is a beautiful and uncompromising Chinese nun whom Stewart meets on the boat out from England;their friendship spans decades and changes both their lives. Dawn Stone is an English journalist who becomes the public face of money and power and big business. Matthew Ho is a young Chinese entrepreneur whose life has been shaped by painful choices made long before his birth, and who is now facing his own difficulties, and opportunities, in the twenty-first century.The novel's shape and scale, its emotional power and beauty, make it John Lancaster's finest book to date.

Fragrant Harbour Bewertungen

This is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last 70 years. Tom Stewart leaves England just before the Great Depression to seek his fortune, and finds it in running Hong Kong's best hotel. Sister Maria is an uncompromising Chinese nun whom Stewart meets on the boat out from England; their friendship spans decades and changes both their lives. Dawn Stone is an English journalist who becomes the public face of money and power and big business. Matthew Ho is a young Chinese entrepreneur whose life has been shaped by choices made long before his birth. The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s, the horrors of the Japanese occupation; the post-war transformation of Hong Kong; the growth of the Triads - all are present in Lanchester's epic novel.

Über John Lanchester

John Lanchester was born in 1962 in Hamburg. Before turning to fiction, he led a varied career as a football reporter, obituary writer, book editor, restaurant critic, and deputy editor of the London Review of Books, where his pieces still occasionally appear. He has also contributed to Granta, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker.His first novel, The Debt to Pleasure, appeared in 1996. Translated into twenty-two languages, it won four literary awards (including the coveted Whitbread First Novel Award and Hawthornden), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award (the only American book prize then open to a non-North American), shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize. It appeared on bestseller lists around the country, and also made many of the annual notable book lists.John Lanchester's second novel, Mr Phillips

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR002902703
9780571201761
0571201768
Fragrant Harbour John Lanchester
John Lanchester
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Gebundene Ausgabe
Faber & Faber
20020708
320
Short-listed for James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 2002
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