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A book which is almost sure to teach you something you didn't know about Chinese history, in this case, the story of two families of refugees from the Middle East who settled in Shanghai 175 years ago - the Sassoons and the Kadoories. It traces their history and influence through the Opium Wars, foreign interventions, multiple revolutions and up until modern day. I've visited Shanghai multiple times over the last decade, and always thought of it as a very Chinese city, oblivious to the possibility it had such exotic origins.
"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe
"Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books
An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and…
The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…
Dave Warner writes a genre called 'outback noir'; imagine a gritty detective story, but set in the Australian outback, instead of grimy inner city streets. Think Aussie Carl Hiassen or Elmore Leonard. His protagonist, Dan Clement, is always working against the odds - the weather, nature, crocodiles, spiders or human snakes - are never kind to him. The best thing about Warner's fiction though is that he lays breadcrumbs for the reader, but never telegraphs who the guilty party is before the last chapter. (I hate crime fiction where you guessed or are told who the baddie is halfway through the book, and then have to labor through hundreds of pages that just confirm what you already know!)
For Broome detective Dan Clement, it seems that crime is as plentiful as wet season rain. When his sergeant is beaten up, and a woman is brutally assaulted, it seems like the same two suspects are behind both incidents. But when a woman’ s hand is discovered in crocodile-infested waters, things take a macabre turn. The stakes rise sky-high as Dan races against time to solve this complex and puzzling case.
