Those Opulent Days
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2025
Ultimo Press (Verlag)
978-1-76115-437-9 (ISBN)
Ultimo Press (Verlag)
978-1-76115-437-9 (ISBN)
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One will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agonise. And one will die. Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men running their families’ formidable businesses, they make up Saigon’s most powerful group of friends in 1928 Vietnam’s elite society.
Until one of them is murdered.
In a lavish mansion on a hill in Dalat, all four men have gathered for an evening of indulgence, but one of them won’t survive the night. Toggling between this fatal night and the six days leading up to it, told from the perspectives of the four men, their mothers, their servants, and their lovers, an intricate web of terror, loyalty, and well-kept secrets begins to unravel.
As the story creeps closer to the murder, and as each character becomes a suspect, the true villain begins to emerge: colonialism, the French occupation of Vietnam, and the massive economic differences that catapult the wealthy into the stratosphere while the poor starve on the streets.
Those Opulent Days is at once both a historical novel of vivid intensity and a pitch-perfect murder mystery with a cast of characters you won’t soon forget.
PRAISE FOR THOSE OPULENT DAYS
‘Intricately plotted and full of dark secrets, Jacquie Pham’s Those Opulent Days is for lovers of smart and sophisticated crime fiction.’ – Mirandi Riwoe, author of Sunbirds
‘Pham delivers a lush tale weaved with deceit, friendship, and privilege. The opulent language will entice you in, the mystery will keep you there. What a debut!’ – Sharlene Allsop, author of The Great Undoing
‘Pham debuts with a memorable and disturbing historical set in French-occupied Vietnam…Pham’s prose is lyrical, and her evocation of the period immersive…this is a tense and unique dispatch from a key period in Vietnamese history.’ – Publishers Weekly
‘Eerie, atmospheric, and shot through with peril, Those Opulent Days captures six heady, violent days in French-colonial Vietnam that will forever alter the lives of this unforgettable cast of characters. Both a riveting mystery and a moving historical drama, this is a glittering debut.’ —Kirstin Chen, New York Times bestselling author of Counterfeit
'a page-turning murder mystery.'—Jane Pek, author of The Verifiers
Until one of them is murdered.
In a lavish mansion on a hill in Dalat, all four men have gathered for an evening of indulgence, but one of them won’t survive the night. Toggling between this fatal night and the six days leading up to it, told from the perspectives of the four men, their mothers, their servants, and their lovers, an intricate web of terror, loyalty, and well-kept secrets begins to unravel.
As the story creeps closer to the murder, and as each character becomes a suspect, the true villain begins to emerge: colonialism, the French occupation of Vietnam, and the massive economic differences that catapult the wealthy into the stratosphere while the poor starve on the streets.
Those Opulent Days is at once both a historical novel of vivid intensity and a pitch-perfect murder mystery with a cast of characters you won’t soon forget.
PRAISE FOR THOSE OPULENT DAYS
‘Intricately plotted and full of dark secrets, Jacquie Pham’s Those Opulent Days is for lovers of smart and sophisticated crime fiction.’ – Mirandi Riwoe, author of Sunbirds
‘Pham delivers a lush tale weaved with deceit, friendship, and privilege. The opulent language will entice you in, the mystery will keep you there. What a debut!’ – Sharlene Allsop, author of The Great Undoing
‘Pham debuts with a memorable and disturbing historical set in French-occupied Vietnam…Pham’s prose is lyrical, and her evocation of the period immersive…this is a tense and unique dispatch from a key period in Vietnamese history.’ – Publishers Weekly
‘Eerie, atmospheric, and shot through with peril, Those Opulent Days captures six heady, violent days in French-colonial Vietnam that will forever alter the lives of this unforgettable cast of characters. Both a riveting mystery and a moving historical drama, this is a glittering debut.’ —Kirstin Chen, New York Times bestselling author of Counterfeit
'a page-turning murder mystery.'—Jane Pek, author of The Verifiers
Jacquie Pham is a Vietnamese-Australian writer of adult fiction. Growing up in Vietnam during the New Korean wave around 2007, Jacquie started writing short stories about Korean boy bands. She then moved to Australia to attend the University of Sydney—not wanting to let 13-year-old Jacquie down, she has decided to pursue a career as an author. She currently lives in Sydney with two very goofy dogs. Don’t tell them, but Jacquie also loves cats.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.1.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Text only |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane |
| ISBN-10 | 1-76115-437-0 / 1761154370 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-76115-437-9 / 9781761154379 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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