The Lost Century Lai Larissa
Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (The Tiger Flu) returns with a sprawling historical novel about war, colonialism and queer experience duringJapan's occupation of Hong Kong during World War…
Specifikacia The Lost Century Lai Larissa
Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (The Tiger Flu) returns with a sprawling historical novel about war, colonialism and queer experience duringJapan's occupation of Hong Kong during World War II.On the eve of the return of the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong toChina in 1997, young Tobie asks her peculiar great-aunt Violet about theJapanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II and the disappearance of her uncle Theo. From Violet, she learns the story of her grandmother, Emily.Emily's marriage--three times--to her father's mortal enemy causes a stir among three very different Hong Kong Chinese families, as well as among the young cricketers at the Hong Kong Cricket Club, who've just witnessed King EdwardVIII's abdication to marry Wallis Simpson. But the class and race pettiness of the scandal around Emily's marriage