Tai-Pan
Asian Saga 2
| Autor: |
James Clavell
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| Jazyk: |
anglicky |
| Vazba: |
měkká |
| Počet stran: |
688 |
| Formát: |
13 x 19,6 cm |
| ISBN/EAN: |
9780340750698 |
| Nakladatel: |
Hodder Paperbacks |
| Rok vydání: |
1999 |
| Edice: |
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The bestselling classic set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong repackaged for a new generation of readers.
Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. This is the story of his fight to establish himself and his dynasty as the undisputed masters of the Orient.
'Packed with action . . . gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder . . . grand entertainment' New York Times
Review Packed with action . . . gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder . . . grand entertainment ― New York Times
Intensely readable and exciting ― Sunday Telegraph
James Clavell is a teller of stories. They are complicated and exciting, and you are desperate to know what will happen to his characters because they are like the people you know from your own life and experience, set in strange and sometimes terrible circumstances ― John Simpson
Intensely readable and exciting ― Sunday Telegraph About the Author James Clavell, the son of a Royal Navy family, was educated in Portsmouth before, as a young artillery officer, he was captured by the Japanese at the Fall of Singapore. It was on this experience that his bestselling novel KING RAT was based. He maintained this oriental interest in his other great works: TAI-PAN, SHOGUN, NOBLE HOUSE and GAI JIN. Clavell lived for many years in Vancouver and Los Angeles, before settling in Switzerland, where he died in 1994.
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