John Lanchester

Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with an expensively groomed wife, two small sons...

'It's Hong Kong,' she said. 'Heung gong. Fragrant harbour.' "Fragrant Harbour" is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last seventy years. Tom Stewart leaves England to seek his fortune, and finds it in running Hong Kong's best hotel. Sister Maria is a beautiful and uncompromising Chinese nun whom Stewart meets on the boat....

70 lat najnowszej historii Hongkongu ukazane poprzez losy czwórki bohaterów. Toma Stewarta - młodego Anglika, który opuszcza Londyn w poszukiwaniu fortuny i w Hongkongu zostaje dyrektorem najlepszego hotelu w mieście. Siostry Marii, pięknej bezkompromisowej chińskiej zakonnicy, której życie nierozerwalnie splecie się z losami Toma. Dawn Stone,...