French Concession
A heart-stopping literary noir and richly atmospheric tale of espionage and international intrigue set in Shanghai in 1931—an electrifying, decadent world of love, violence, and betrayal filled with femmes fatales, criminals, revolutionaries, and spiesA boat from Hong Kong arrives in Shanghai harbor, carrying an important official in the Nationalist Party and his striking wife, Leng. Amid the raucous sound of firecrackers, gunshots ring out: an assassin has shot the official and then himself. Leng disappears in the ensuing chaos.Hsueh, a Franco-Chinese photographer aboard the same boat, has become captivated by Leng's beauty and unconcealed m…
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- ISBN: 978-0-06-231345-4
- EAN: 9780062313454
- Produktnummer: 17192112
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D3.2 cm 534 g
- Abbildungen: 8 maps
- Gewicht: 534
Über den Autor
Xiao Bai was born in 1968 in Shanghai. He is the author of Horny Hamlet, a prize-winning collection of essays, and the novel Game Point. In 2013 his novella, Xu Xiangbi the Spy, won the tenth annual Shanghai Literary Prize. French Concession is his first novel to be translated into English. He lives in Shanghai.
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