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Xiao Bai French Concession (Paperback)
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- Publication Name
- French Concession
- Title
- French Concession
- Subtitle
- A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 006231355X
- EAN
- 9780062313553
- ISBN
- 9780062313553
- Release Date
- 07/05/2016
- Release Year
- 2016
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Book Title
- French Concession : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Language Arts & Disciplines, Fiction
- Topic
- Thrillers / Suspense, Linguistics / General
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Item Weight
- 9.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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An acclaimed Chinese writer makes his English language debut with this heart-stopping literary noir, a richly atmospheric tale of espionage and international intrigue, set in Shanghai in 1931--an electrifying, decadent world of love, violence, and betrayal filled with femme fatales, criminals, revolutionaries, and spies. A 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. Hseuh, a Franco-Chinese photographer aboard the same boat, became captivated by Leng's beauty and unconcealed misery. Now, she is missing. But Hsueh is plagued by a mystery closer to home: he suspects his White Russian lover, Therese, is unfaithful. Why else would she disappear so often on their recent vacation When he's arrested for mysterious reasons in the French Concession and forced to become a police collaborator, he realizes that in the seamy, devious world of Shanghai, no one is who they appear to be. Coerced into spying for the authorities, Hseuh discovers that Therese is secretly an arms dealer, supplying Shanghai's gangs with weapons. His investigation of Therese eventually leads him back to Leng, a loyal revolutionary with ties to a menacing new gang, led by a charismatic Communist whose acts of violence and terrorism threaten the entire country. His aptitude for espionage draws Hseuh into a dark underworld of mobsters, smugglers, anarchists, and assassins. Torn between Therese and Leng, he vows to protect them both. As the web of intrigue tightens around him, Hsueh plays a dangerous game, hoping to stay alive.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
006231355x
ISBN-13
9780062313553
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27038250417
Product Key Features
Book Title
French Concession : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Suspense, Linguistics / General
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines, Fiction
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Item Weight
9.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Pl2967.7.O2738z8213
Reviews
"[An] absorbing novel of character and mood...Readers of Alan Furst's noir novels of Europe on the edge of World War II will find much to enjoy in this superior novel." -- Library Journal "Xiao Bai has done something totally different. He didn't write about the 1930's and the concessions as background for his story-they are the subjects of his writing. He is writing in the tradition of Honoré de Balzac." -- Feng Tao, book editor and critic in Shanghai "Rich with historical detail, Xiao Bai's French Concession is a sensual, intellectual thriller--which like human memory, is pulled from the chaos of truth and lies, desire and regret." -- Simon Van Booy "A complex and fast-paced plot that twists around the murder, in the spring of 1931, of a Nanking politico on his arrival in Shanghai...A political and police novel, historical fresco, and mirror of human passions." -- Il Manifesto (Italy), Rich with historical detail, Xiao Bai's French Concession is a sensual, intellectual thriller--which like human memory, is pulled from the chaos of truth and lies, desire and regret., Xiao Bai has done something totally different. He didn't write about the 1930's and the concessions as background for his story-they are the subjects of his writing. He is writing in the tradition of Honor de Balzac.
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2014-037081
Dewey Decimal
895.13/6
Dewey Edition
23
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