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'It’s Hong Kong', she said. 'Heung gong. Fragrant harbour'. Fragrant Harbour is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia’s last seventy years. Tom Stewart leaves England 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. 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. The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the horrors of the Japanese occupation during the Second World War; the post-war boom; the growth of the Triads; and the hand over of the city to the Chinese - all these are present in Fragrant Harbour, an epic novel of one of the world’s great cities and John Lanchester’s finest book to date.
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Author: John Lanchester
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In his new novel Fragrant Harbour John Lanchester, as in his previous books, shows an impressionist's gift for adopting different voices for his narrator. The moral hedonist Tarquin Winot who tells his story in The Debt to Pleasure and the downsized suburbanite whose inner monologues provide the material for Mr Phillips could hardly be more contrasting characters, yet Lanchester makes both equally convincing.
In Fragrant Harbour much of the story is told in the words of Tom Stewart, a young Englishman who sails to Hong Kong in the 1930s and ends up spending the rest of his long life there. The voice of Stewart--reserved, humane and understated--is as finely achieved as those in the earlier novels. Through his eyes we see Hong Kong's 20th-century history. The class-ridden and racially divided society of the 1930s is given the brutal awakening of the Japanese occupation. After the war, the old Hong Kong disappears and the city is transformed by economic boom and entrepreneurial energy. The approaching return of the city to mainland China brings its own problems, anxieties and upheavals.
Against this backdrop, Stewart's life, and particularly his relationship with Maria, a Chinese nun he first meets as he is travelling out from England in 1935, unfolds. Lanchester intertwines personal histories and the city's history with great skill, showing how the past lives on, even in a city as resolutely modern as Hong Kong. The narrator of the book's last section, a young businessman called Matthew Ho, may be the embodiment of the new Hong Kong but, as he knows himself, his life has been decisively marked by the old. --Nick Rennison
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0571214703
- ISBN 13 9780571214709
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages320
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Condition: Wie neu. Erste Auflage dieser Ausgabe. X, 299 (11) Seiten. 17,9 cm. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. Sehr guter Zustand. Frisches Exemplar. Wie ungelesen. 'It's Hong Kong,' she said. 'Heung gong. Fragrant harbour.' "Fragrant Harbour" is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last seventy years. Tom Stewart leaves England 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. 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. The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the horrors of the Japanese occupation during the Second World War; the post-war boom and the handover of the city to the Chinese - all these are present in "Fragrant Harbour", an epic novel of one of the world's great cities. - 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. - John Lanchester (* 25. Februar 1962 in Hamburg) ist ein britischer Schriftsteller, der für seinen 1996 erschienenen Debütroman The Debt to Pleasure mit zahlreichen Literaturpreisen wie dem Hawthornden-Preis und dem Whitbread Book Award für den besten Debütroman ausgezeichnet wurde. In Deutschland gelang Lanchester 2012 der Durchbruch mit dem Roman Kapital (englisch Capital), einem Buch über das Leben in der Großstadt in den Zeiten der Finanzkrise. Leben: Lanchester wuchs im Fernen Osten auf und war nach seiner Ausbildung in England als Redakteur beim Verlag Penguin Books tätig, ehe er Mitglied der Redaktion der London Review of Books wurde. Daneben war er für zahlreiche Zeitungen und Zeitschriften wie Granta und The New Yorker tätig sowie als Restaurantkritiker für The Observer und Kolumnist für The Daily Telegraph. Werk: 1996 veröffentlichte Lanchester seinen viel beachteten Debütroman The Debt to Pleasure , eine unorthodoxe und gebildete Autobiografie des unheimlichen Gourmets Tarquin Winot". Hierfür erhielt er mehrere Literaturpreise: Den Whitbread Book Award für den besten Debütroman, den Hawthornden-Preis, den Betty Trask Prize sowie den Julia Child-Award. Das Buch wurde in zwanzig Sprachen übersetzt, ins Deutsche von Melanie Walz. Sein zweites Buch, der Roman Mr Phillips (2000), ist ein innerer Monolog, der die Gedanken und Fantasien eines arbeitslosen fünfzigjährigen Buchhalters erzählt. Der in Hongkong spielende Roman Fragrant Harbour (2002) wurde für den James Tait Black Memorial Prize nominiert. Zuletzt erschienen das autobiografisch geprägte Buch Family Romance (2007) sowie im März 2013 "Warum jeder jedem etwas schuldet und keiner jemals etwas zurückzahlt"', eine Darstellung der Finanzkrise ab 2007 (Englisch 2010: Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay. . Aus: wikipedia-John_Lanchester. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 200 Taschenbuch. Kartoniert mit farbiger Einbandzeichnung. Seller Inventory # 51362
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