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Fragrant Harbor

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Historical Hong Kong through an Englishman's eyes.

If you're intrigued by the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures and the allure of old Hong Kong, "Fragrant Harbor" might be your next favorite read. John Lanchester's keen eye brings to life the colonial era with a richness that's both educational and engrossing. You'll traverse through time with characters that feel both deeply real and emblematic of the changing tides in this Asian metropolis.

  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2002)
  • Premi Llibreter de narrativa (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Fragrant Harbor

Regular price ₱539.55 Now ₱292.05 Save 46%
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ISBN: 9780399148668
Authors: John Lanchester
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Date of Publication: 2002-07-08
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Drama, Contemporary
Related Topics: World War II, Historical Romance
Goodreads rating: 3.8
(rated by 2015 readers)

Description

It is 1935 and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with an almost visceral longing for adventure, has bought himself a cheap ticket to the complex, corrupt, and corrupting world of Hong Kong. Aboard ship, he becomes the pawn in a wager between a bluff businessman and a Chinese missionary nun, who bets she can teach him Cantonese on the six-week voyage out. What begins as friendship turns into solace and then a passion that only individual vows can remit. Fragrant Harbor takes the reader from the intrigue and double-dealing of the 1930s through the savagery of the Japanese occupation to contemporary Hong Kong, crossroads of international trade and finance and waystation for laundering the dirty money of warlords, drug runners, and Chinese triads. The novel ends three years after the Mainland takeover, with Hong Kong as greedy, corrupt, and corrupting as when Stewart first landed there. Writing with the same fine style and observant eye that distinguished his previous novels, John Lanchester depicts a tumultuous time and place and then peoples it with extraordinary characters. The result is a novel that proves he is among our most versatile and talented contemporary novelists-indeed, as The New York Times wrote, "Lanchester is a commanding writer."
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Historical Hong Kong through an Englishman's eyes.

If you're intrigued by the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures and the allure of old Hong Kong, "Fragrant Harbor" might be your next favorite read. John Lanchester's keen eye brings to life the colonial era with a richness that's both educational and engrossing. You'll traverse through time with characters that feel both deeply real and emblematic of the changing tides in this Asian metropolis.

  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2002)
  • Premi Llibreter de narrativa (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.