Fragrant Harbor

John Lanchester


Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
3.79 · 14 ratings · 342 pages · Published: 01 Jan 2002

Fragrant Harbor by John Lanchester
It is 1935, and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with a longing for adventure, buys himself a cheap ticket aboard the SS Darjeeling—en route to the complex and corrupt world of Hong Kong. A shipboard wager leads to an unlikely friendship that spans seven decades as Hong Kong endures the savagery of the Japanese occupation, emerging as a crossroads of international finance and the nexus of a world of warlords, drug runners, and Chinese triads.

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