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The Headmaster´s Wager
Vincent Lam
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Description for The Headmaster´s Wager
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 282.
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 headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon, a patriot, fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage. He is also a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible womanizer. He devotedly ignores all news of the fighting that swirls around him, content to pay the requisite bribes to the ever-changing government officials and to spend his nights at the casino tables. When his only son gets in ... Read more
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 headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon, a patriot, fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage. He is also a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible womanizer. He devotedly ignores all news of the fighting that swirls around him, content to pay the requisite bribes to the ever-changing government officials and to spend his nights at the casino tables. When his only son gets in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
282g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007263837
SKU
V9780007263837
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-13
About Vincent Lam
Dr Vincent Lam was born in London, Ontario. His family is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam. He studied medicine in Toronto and is an emergency physician. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children. www.vincentlam.ca
Reviews for The Headmaster´s Wager
`A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it' Janice Y.K. Lee, author of The Piano Teacher `Sumptuously plotted...Lam goes for the jugular, combining an operatic love story...with ... Read more