The Man In The Wooden Hat - Brossura

Gardam, Jane

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0349118469 ISBN 13: 9780349118468

Casa editrice: Abacus, 2011

Riassunto

Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions. But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit. She was brought up in the Japanese Internment Camps, which killed both her parents, but left her with a lust for survival and an affinity with the Far East. No wonder she is attracted to Filth's hated rival at the Bar - the brash, forceful Veneering. Veneering has a Chinese wife and an adored son - and no difficulty whatsoever in demonstrating his emotions . . .

How Elisabeth turns into Betty and whether she remains loyal to stolid Filth or swept up by caddish Veneering, make for a page-turning plot, in a perfect novel which is full of surprises and revelations, as well as the humour and eccentricites for which Jane Gardam's writing is famous.

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Descrizione del libro:

* A box of delights - another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and a companion novel to OLD FILTH

L'autore:

Jane Gardam has been awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature; has twice won a Whitbread Award and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She was awarded an OBE in January 2009.

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• Editore: Abacus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0349118469
• ISBN 13: 9780349118468
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288