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Publication Name
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
ISBN
9780007263837
Publication Year
2013
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
The Headmaster's Wager
Item Height
198mm
Author
Vincent Lam
Publisher
HarperCollins
Topic
Books
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
280g
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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From internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War. Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible womanizer. He is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials in order to maintain the elite status of the Chen Academy. He is fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, and quick to spot the business opportunities rife in a divided country. He devotedly ignores all news of the fighting that swirls around him, choosing instead to read the faces of his opponents at high-stakes mahjong tables. But when his only son gets in trouble with the Vietnamese authorities, Percival faces the limits of his connections and wealth and is forced to send him away. In the loneliness that follows, Percival finds solace in Jacqueline, a beautiful woman of mixed French and Vietnamese heritage, and Laing Jai, a son born to them on the eve of the Tet offensive. Percival's new-found happiness is precarious, and as the complexities of war encroach further and further into his world, he must confront the tragedy of all he has refused to see. Blessed with intriguingly flawed characters moving through a richly drawn historical and physical landscape, The Headmaster's Wager is a riveting story of love, betrayal and sacrifice.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780007263837
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Book Title
The Headmaster's Wager
Author
Vincent Lam
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2013
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
280g

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Vincent Lam
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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