{"product_id":"fragrant-harbor-isbn-9780142003374","title":"Fragrant Harbor","description":"It is 1935, and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with a longing for adventure, buys himself a cheap ticket aboard the \u003ci\u003eSS Darjeeling\u003c\/i\u003e-en route to the complex and corrupt world of Hong Kong. A shipboard wager leads to an unlikely friendship that spans seven decades as Hong Kong endures the savagery of the Japanese occupation, emerging as a crossroads of international finance and the nexus of a world of warlords, drug runners, and Chinese triads.\"An ambitious novel . . . Mr. Lanchester succeeds in fusing the epic with the individual.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A lovely, intelligent, and beguiling book.\" (Jonathan Yardley, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lanchester makes Hong Kong so fascinating. What he has to say about the city is complex and thoughtful and has all the makings of a great, epic story.\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e)John Lanchester is the author of \u003cb\u003eThe Debt to Pleasure\u003c\/b\u003e (winner of the Whitbread and Hawthornden prizes) and \u003cb\u003eMr. Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e. Raised in Hong Kong, he now lives in London with his wife and sons.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304338936037,"sku":"NP9780142003374","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142003374.jpg?v=1767727627","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/fragrant-harbor-isbn-9780142003374","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}