It is 1935, and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with a longing for adventure, buys himself a cheap ticket aboard the SS Darjeeling-en route to the complex and corrupt world of Hong Kong. A shipboard wager leads to an unlikely friendship that spans seven decades as Hong Kong endures the savagery of the Japanese occupation, emerging as a crossroads of international finance and the nexus of a world of warlords, drug runners, and Chinese triads.
John Lanchester is the prize-winning author of three novels: The Debt to Pleasure, Mr. Phillips, and Fragrant Harbour, as well as a family memoir. He is also a journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, The Times of London and the New York Times.View titles by John Lanchester
It is 1935, and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with a longing for adventure, buys himself a cheap ticket aboard the SS Darjeeling-en route to the complex and corrupt world of Hong Kong. A shipboard wager leads to an unlikely friendship that spans seven decades as Hong Kong endures the savagery of the Japanese occupation, emerging as a crossroads of international finance and the nexus of a world of warlords, drug runners, and Chinese triads.
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John Lanchester is the prize-winning author of three novels: The Debt to Pleasure, Mr. Phillips, and Fragrant Harbour, as well as a family memoir. He is also a journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, The Times of London and the New York Times.View titles by John Lanchester
