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Author
Publisher
Flamingo
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 1982 Chinese playwright, novelist and artist Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer, the very disease that had killed his father. For six weeks Gao inhabited a transcendental state of imminent death, treating himself to the finest foods he could afford while spending time reading in an old graveyard in the Beijing suburbs. But a secondary examination revealed there was no cancer - he had won a ?reprieve from death? and had been thrown back...
Author
Series
The Three-Body Problem volume 1
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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1967: University student Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during the Cultural Revolution. His crime? Failure to recant his belief in science. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, after a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal that styles itself the Frontiers of...
Author
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
1899, China. The Mandarins are becoming troublesome again and there are rumors that attacks will soon begin on British trade missions and legations. Captain David Blackwoodof the Royal Marines, received a VC in the bloody battle for Benin, Africa but is now being packed off to this apparent backwater. But there are plenty of troubles in store for Blackwood in the shape of an errant nephew and a beautiful German Countess who insists he personally escort...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
One sultry evening in Kowloon, Dr Rowena Rossiter and Sister Alice Huntley are off-duty and in search of fun - little knowing that their world is on the brink of collapse. That night, Rowena will meet two men who will fight for her heart for the next four years. Connor O'Connor, the rebellious Irish soldier, who will woo and then lose her, and Kim Pheloung. Immensely rich and the most beautiful man Rowena has ever seen, he is also the most ruthless,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The smallest items can hold centuries of secrets... Inara Erickson is exploring her deceased aunt's island estate when she finds an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house. As she peels back layer upon layer of the secrets it holds, Inara's life becomes interwoven with that of Mei Lein, a young Chinese girl mysteriously driven from her home a century before. Through the stories Mei Lein tells in silk, Inara uncovers a tragic truth...
11) Mo sheng ri
Author
Publisher
Bei Jing Lian He Chu Ban Gong Si
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Crime.
12) Sheng hua zhi ri
Author
Publisher
Bei Jing Yan Shan Chu Ban She
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Crime.
14) Bai se cheng bao
Author
Publisher
Guang Ming Ri Bao Chu Ban She
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Social novel.
16) Zhong chang shao
Author
Publisher
Guang Dong Ren Min Chu Ban She
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Thriller.
Author
Publisher
Corvus
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars and that she is about to encounter the strangest, craziest group of people in existence. Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian jet set; a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money - and a fabulous novel about what it means to...
18) Zhong dian ji yi
Author
Publisher
Ren Min Wen Xue Chu Ban She
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Horror.
Author
Publisher
Clipper Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
'The Lives Before Us' follows Esther and Kitty who, facing Nazi persecution, flee to Shanghai. April 1939 and, with their lives in Berlin and Vienna under threat, they are forced to make the same brutal choice. Flee Europe, or face the ghetto, incarceration, death. Shanghai, they've heard is a haven and so they secure passage to the other side of the world. What they find is a city of extremes - wealth, ppverty, decadence and disease - and of deep...
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