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On Java Road
Artikel-Nr:
9780593242322
Veröffentl:
2022
Erscheinungsdatum:
02.08.2022
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Lawrence Osborne
Gewicht:
368 g
Format:
213x144x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Lawrence Osborne is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels, including The Forgiven (soon to be a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain), The Glass Kingdom, a New York Times Notable Book, and Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and named as a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, as well as six books of nonfiction, including Bangkok Days. He has led a nomadic life, living in Paris, New York, Mexico, and Istanbul, and he currently resides in Bangkok.
A veteran British journalist in Hong Kong is caught in a shadowy web of truth and betrayal as he investigates the disappearance of a student protester in this moody and compelling (Kirkus Reviews) novel from the New York Times notable author of The Forgiven now a major motion picture.
Osborne is a startlingly good observer of privilege, noting the rites and rituals of the upper classes with unerring precision and an undercurrent of malice. Katie Kitamura, The New York Times Book Review, on Beautiful Animals
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 CrimeReads, Fodors
After two decades as a journalist in Hong Kong, ex-pat Englishman Adrian Gyle has very little to show for it. Evenings are whiled away with soup dumplings and tea at Fung Shing, the restaurant downstairs from his home on Java Road, watching the city once overflowing with wine dinners and private members clubs erupt in violence as pro-democracy demonstrations hit ever closer to home.
Watching from the skyrises is Adrian s old friend Jimmy Tang, the scion of one of Hong Kong s wealthiest families. Just as Gyle prepares to turn his back on Hong Kong, he finds one last intrigue: the mysterious Rebecca, a student involved in the protests, and the latest of Jimmy s reckless dalliances. But when Rebecca goes missing and Jimmy hides, Gyle feels that old familiar urge to investigate.
Piecing together Rebecca s final days and hours, Gyle must tread carefully through a volatile world of friendship and betrayal where personal loyalties vanish like the city he once knew so well. On Java Road tells the story of a man between the fault lines of old worlds and new orders in pursuit of the truth.
Osborne is a startlingly good observer of privilege, noting the rites and rituals of the upper classes with unerring precision and an undercurrent of malice. Katie Kitamura, The New York Times Book Review, on Beautiful Animals
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 CrimeReads, Fodors
After two decades as a journalist in Hong Kong, ex-pat Englishman Adrian Gyle has very little to show for it. Evenings are whiled away with soup dumplings and tea at Fung Shing, the restaurant downstairs from his home on Java Road, watching the city once overflowing with wine dinners and private members clubs erupt in violence as pro-democracy demonstrations hit ever closer to home.
Watching from the skyrises is Adrian s old friend Jimmy Tang, the scion of one of Hong Kong s wealthiest families. Just as Gyle prepares to turn his back on Hong Kong, he finds one last intrigue: the mysterious Rebecca, a student involved in the protests, and the latest of Jimmy s reckless dalliances. But when Rebecca goes missing and Jimmy hides, Gyle feels that old familiar urge to investigate.
Piecing together Rebecca s final days and hours, Gyle must tread carefully through a volatile world of friendship and betrayal where personal loyalties vanish like the city he once knew so well. On Java Road tells the story of a man between the fault lines of old worlds and new orders in pursuit of the truth.