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ON JAVA ROAD
ON JAVA ROAD is both a wry, ominously slippery mystery and a gripping portrait of a city swallowed by unrest. Osborne brings readers right into the turbulent streets of Hong Kong as we follow a jaded British reporter obsessed with uncovering the secrets behind the disappearance of a student protester. But it also tells the story of a vanishing city, and a man between cultures, as the old world breaks to a new dawn.
After twenty years as a journalist in Hong Kong, ex-pat Englishman Adrian Gyle has very little to show for it. Evenings are whiled away with soup dumplings and tea at Fung Shing, the restaurant downstairs from his home on Java Road, that "most melancholy street in the city, the street where the dead congregated." It is through these jaded eyes that Gyle watches the city around him - once overflowing with wine dinners and private members' clubs - erupt in violence as pro-democracy demonstrations hit ever closer to home.
Just as Gyle prepares to turn his back on this city, he finds one last intrigue: the alluring Rebecca, the new girlfriend of one of his oldest friends, and a student involved in the protests. When her body mysteriously turns up in the local morgue, Gyle finds that old familiar urge to investigate and as he pieces together Rebecca's final days and hours, Gyle must tread carefully through a newly volatile and dangerous place.
Lawrence Osborne is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels, including THE GLASS KINGDOM (a New York Times Notable Book, and Editor's Choice), THE FORGIVEN (now a movie starring Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain), BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS (was a front cover review of the New York Times Book Review) and ONLY TO SLEEP: A Philip Marlowe Novel (nominated for an Edgar Award and named as a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review), plus six books of nonfiction, including BANGKOK DAYS. Lawrence Osborne fans include Lionel Shriver, Lee Child, Hilary Mantel, Deborah Levy, Katie Kitamura, and the critic Dwight Garner. He has led a nomadic life, living in Paris, New York, Mexico, and Istanbul, and he currently resides in Bangkok.
Just as Gyle prepares to turn his back on this city, he finds one last intrigue: the alluring Rebecca, the new girlfriend of one of his oldest friends, and a student involved in the protests. When her body mysteriously turns up in the local morgue, Gyle finds that old familiar urge to investigate and as he pieces together Rebecca's final days and hours, Gyle must tread carefully through a newly volatile and dangerous place.
Lawrence Osborne is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels, including THE GLASS KINGDOM (a New York Times Notable Book, and Editor's Choice), THE FORGIVEN (now a movie starring Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain), BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS (was a front cover review of the New York Times Book Review) and ONLY TO SLEEP: A Philip Marlowe Novel (nominated for an Edgar Award and named as a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review), plus six books of nonfiction, including BANGKOK DAYS. Lawrence Osborne fans include Lionel Shriver, Lee Child, Hilary Mantel, Deborah Levy, Katie Kitamura, and the critic Dwight Garner. He has led a nomadic life, living in Paris, New York, Mexico, and Istanbul, and he currently resides in Bangkok.
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Published 2022-08-02 by Hogarth |