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A haunting, lyrical, disturbing, important, suspenseful, wonderfully written and beautiful book. You will love reading it, and you will not soon forget the experience.”Harlan Coben
Grey has a lot to prove and even more to hide. A young Englishwoman obsessed with a past she cannot understand, she has come to Tokyo following rumors of a rare piece of film footage shot during the notorious Nanking Massacre in 1937, which has been lost for decades. But the only man who can help, a survivor of the massacre and now a visiting professor at a prestigious Tokyo university, will have nothing to do with her. Increasingly desperate in an alien city, Grey accepts a job as a hostess in an upmarket nightspot catering to Japanese businessmen and wealthy yakuza, where one gangsteran old man in a wheelchair surrounded by a terrifying entourage, rumored to rely on a powerful elixir for his continued healthmight be the key to the answers Grey seeks. Taut and gritty, with the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-tingling characters of Thomas Harris, The Devil of Nanking is a tour de force that confirms Mo Hayder as a thriller writer of the first order.
Wrenching . . . A beautifully controlled thriller about culture clash . . . Scary.”Douglas Wolk, The New York Times Book Review
There is a terrible beauty to both narratives as they unfold toward an agonizing but inevitable conclusion, with the two stories dovetailing exquisitely . . . The Devil of Nanking just may be one of the best books of the year.”Tom and Enid Schantz, The Denver Post
A haunting, lyrical, disturbing, important, suspenseful, wonderfully written and beautiful book. You will love reading it, and you will not soon forget the experience.”Harlan Coben
Grey has a lot to prove and even more to hide. A young Englishwoman obsessed with a past she cannot understand, she has come to Tokyo following rumors of a rare piece of film footage shot during the notorious Nanking Massacre in 1937, which has been lost for decades. But the only man who can help, a survivor of the massacre and now a visiting professor at a prestigious Tokyo university, will have nothing to do with her. Increasingly desperate in an alien city, Grey accepts a job as a hostess in an upmarket nightspot catering to Japanese businessmen and wealthy yakuza, where one gangsteran old man in a wheelchair surrounded by a terrifying entourage, rumored to rely on a powerful elixir for his continued healthmight be the key to the answers Grey seeks. Taut and gritty, with the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-tingling characters of Thomas Harris, The Devil of Nanking is a tour de force that confirms Mo Hayder as a thriller writer of the first order.
Wrenching . . . A beautifully controlled thriller about culture clash . . . Scary.”Douglas Wolk, The New York Times Book Review
There is a terrible beauty to both narratives as they unfold toward an agonizing but inevitable conclusion, with the two stories dovetailing exquisitely . . . The Devil of Nanking just may be one of the best books of the year.”Tom and Enid Schantz, The Denver Post
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
|---|---|
| ISBN-13: | 9780802122193 |
| ISBN-10: | 0802122191 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Hayder, Mo |
| Hersteller: | Grove Atlantic |
| Maße: | 208 x 139 x 38 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Mo Hayder |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 14.01.2014 |
| Gewicht: | 0,354 kg |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
|---|---|
| ISBN-13: | 9780802122193 |
| ISBN-10: | 0802122191 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Hayder, Mo |
| Hersteller: | Grove Atlantic |
| Maße: | 208 x 139 x 38 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Mo Hayder |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 14.01.2014 |
| Gewicht: | 0,354 kg |
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