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The lost century : a novel
- Title
- The lost century : a novel / Larissa Lai.
- Author
- Lai, Larissa
- Publication
- Vancouver, BC : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2022]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 23-216 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 381 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The latest novel by Larissa Lai, an epic yet intimate story set during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II Lambda Literary Award-winner Larissa Lai (The Tiger Flu) returns with a sprawling historical novel about war, colonialism, and queer experience during Japan's occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. On the eve of the return of the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to China in 1997, young Ophelia asks her peculiar great-aunt Violet about the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II and the disappearance of her uncle Raymond. From Violet, she learns the story of her grandmother, Emily. Emily's marriage--three times--to her father's mortal enemy causes a stir among three very different Hong Kong Chinese families, as well as among the young cricketers at the Hong Kong Cricket Club, who've just witnessed King Edward VIII's abdication to marry Wallis Simpson. But the class and race pettiness of the scandal around Emily's marriage is violently disrupted by the Japanese Imperial Army's invasion of Hong Kong on Christmas Day, 1941, which plunges the colony into a landscape of violence none of its inhabitants escape from unscathed, least of all Emily. When her situation becomes dire, Violet, along with a crew of unlikely cosmopolitans, determines to rescue Emily from the wrath of the person she thought loved her the most, her husband, Tak-Wing. In the middle of it all, a strange match of timeless Test cricket unfolds, in which the ball has an agency all its own. With great heart, The Lost Century explores the intersections of Asian relations, queer Asian history, underground resistance, the violence of war, and the rise of modern China--a expansive novel of betrayal, epic violence, and intimate passions."--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- War fiction.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-216
- ISBN
- 9781551528977
- 1551528975
- OCLC
- 1294920219
- Author
- Lai, Larissa, author.
- Title
- The lost century : a novel / Larissa Lai.
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Lai, Larissa. Lost century. Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022 1551528983 9781551528984 (OCoLC)1308948346
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-216