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Lai, Larissa.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- China -- Hong Kong -- Fiction.
Hong Kong (China) -- History -- Siege, 1941 -- Fiction.
Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Lai, Larissa.
World War, 1939-1945 -- China -- Hong Kong -- Fiction.
Hong Kong (China) -- History -- Siege, 1941 -- Fiction.
Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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The lost
century
: a novel / Larissa Lai.
by
Lai, Larissa.
Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022.
Call #:
FICTION
LAI
Subjects
World War, 1939-1945
--
China
--
Hong
Kong
--
Fiction
.
Hong
Kong
(
China
)
--
History
--
Siege, 1941
--
Fiction
.
Hong
Kong
(
China
)
--
Social
conditions
--
20th
century
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9781551528977 (trade pbk.)
Description:
381 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-377).
Summary:
"On the eve of the return of the British Crown colony of
Hong
Kong
to
China
in 1997, young Ophelia asks her peculiar great-aunt Violet about the Japanese occupation of
Hong
Kong
during World War II and the disappearance of her uncle Raymond. 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 Edward VIII's abdication to marry Wallis Simpson. But the class and race pettiness of the scandal around Emily's marriage is violently disrupted by the Japanese Imperial Army's invasion of
Hong
Kong
on Christmas Day, 1941, which plunges the colony into a landscape of violence none of its inhabitants escape from unscathed, least of all Emily. When her situation becomes dire, Violet, along with a crew of unlikely cosmopolitans, determines to rescue Emily from the wrath of the person she thought loved her the most, her husband, Tak-Wing. In the middle of it all, a strange match of timeless Test cricket unfolds, in which the ball has an agency all its own. With great heart, The Lost
Century
explores the intersections of Asian relations, queer Asian history, underground resistance, the violence of war, and the rise of modern China--a expansive novel of betrayal, epic violence, and intimate passions."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Historical
fiction
.
Canadian
fiction
.
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