by John Lanchester · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571214686
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«Fragrant Harbour» is the historical novel by John Lanchester, published by Faber And Faber Ltd. in 2002 in paperback (299 pages, in English).
Tom Stewart, a young Englishman who travels to Hong Kong in 1935, learns Cantonese in six weeks due to a bet between a Chinese nun and a businessman; that skill marks his career. The novel interweaves his life with those of three other people over seventy years, from colonial Hong Kong and the Japanese occupation to postwar prosperity.
It was nominated for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2002 and won the Premi Llibreter for narrative in 2005.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary British literature, especially those interested in the history of Hong Kong.
John Henry Lanchester is a British journalist and novelist.
