A Winter in China, A

Galbraith D (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2006
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-946597-3 (ISBN)

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Able, bored and just down from Cambridge in the summer of 1937, Sally Marsden contemplates her future without enthusiasm. So many have assumed she will marry Hugh Jerrold it is, practically, an engagement. When Hugh returns from his diplomatic posting to China there will be a wedding and a thoroughly respectable settling down.

Just down from Cambridge in the summer of 1937, Sally Marsden contemplates her future without enthusiasm. So many have assumed she will marry Hugh Jerrold it is, practically, an engagement. When Hugh returns from his diplomatic posting to China they will be married. But before submitting to the strictures of upper-middle-class life, Sally embarks on one last adventure - travelling to China herself, where she will spend the winter. The Sino-Japanese war begins shortly after Sally's arrival and a disastrous miscalculation separates her from Hugh and leaves her trapped in Nanking, one of two dozen Europeans and Americans to witness the capture and sack of the city by the Japanese Imperial Army. The experience is shared with Peter Moss, an American photo-journalist and friend of Hugh. Bystanders in a racial war, Sally and Peter emerge physically unscathed but utterly changed, and all their attempts to carry on as before quickly founder.

Douglas Galbraith was born in Glasgow in 1965 and is the author of three other novels, The Rising Sun, King Henry and My Son, My Son: How One Generation Hurts the Next. He lives in Scotland.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.2.2006
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 196 mm
Gewicht	210 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-09-946597-3 / 0099465973
ISBN-13	978-0-09-946597-3 / 9780099465973
Zustand	Neuware