基本信息出版社：Hodder Headline
页码：736 页
出版日期：2007年09月
ISBN：0340938323
International Standard Book Number：0340282622
条形码：9780340938324
EAN：9780340282625
版本：Reprint
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Hodder Great Reads

内容简介 This is the story of two lovers and two great dynasties—one British, the other Chinese—and of the society that separated them and the passion that bound them. Opulence, terror, and forbidden passion prevail in 1930s Singapore. The country is as rich as its climate is steamy, and its bright future seems all but assured. Against all the unwritten canons of Singapore life, a wealthy British man falls in love with the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. Their love grows despite opposition from both of their families—and the imminent outbreak of war.
作者简介 Noel Barber has enchanted millions of readers with his six bestselling novels. In these powerfully exotic novels he drew upon his own experience as one of the leading foreign correspondents from the 40s to the 60s working on the Daily Mail. He was the first Briton to reach the South Pole since Scott, was stabbed five times while covering the wars in Morocco and was shot during the Hungarian uprising. He died in 1988.
媒体推荐 Daily Mail
`An astonishing fictional debut . . . A great read'

Review

‘An astonishing fictional debut . . . A great read’

(Daily Mail )

‘An exceedingly good book, and one of the can’t put down variety . . . a winner’ M M Kaye, author of <i>The Far Pavilions</i>

(M M Kaye, author of The Far Pavilions )

'Noel Barber has always done everything in a big way, with style, panache and a dash of adventure. But he has never written a story of such dimensions, such a sense of history and imagination as this first novel . . . it is an intensely gripping and convincing story'

(Manchester Evening News )

'Barber is a master'

(Mail on Sunday )

Manchester Evening News
'Noel Barber has always done everything in a big way, with style, panache and a dash of adventure. But he has never written a story of such dimensions, such a sense of history and imagination as this first novel . . . it is an intensely gripping and convincing story'

Mail on Sunday
'Barber is a master'


编辑推荐 Daily Mail `An astonishing fictional debut . . . A great read' M M Kaye, author of THE FAR PAVILIONS `An exceedingly good book, and one of the can't put down variety . . . a winner' Manchester Evening News 'Noel Barber has always done everything in a big way, with style, panache and a dash of adventure. But he has never written a story of such dimensions, such a sense of history and imagination as this first novel . . . it is an intensely gripping and convincing story' Mail on Sunday 'Barber is a master'