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The Borrowed de Chan Ho-Kei

The Borrowed

Autor Chan Ho-Kei Traducere de Jeremy Tiang
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 apr 2017

A cleverly constructed epic crime novel, told through six different murder cases set over fifty years in a Hong Kong Police Force.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781784971533
ISBN-10: 1784971537
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Victor Tanasa a dat nota:

The Borrowed masterfully blends the classic detective genre, focused on logical deductions and solving clues with the social genre, which reflects upon the state of a society (Hong Kong in this case). It achieves this with six reverse-chronology novellas (the first in 2013 and the last in 1967), each highlighting a crucial part of the city's history and a different case for Kwan Chun-dok, detective genius. The stories are very engaging and well thought out, the characters likable and the city of Hong Kong a fantastic setting - I've found myself googling a lot of the locations described in the book. Just awesome.

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Praise for The Borrowed:

“Chan Ho-kei’s The Borrowed is full of surprises . . . A brilliant detective novel.”—Taiwanese novelist and crime editor extraordinaire Wolf Hsu

“[Chan’s] latest award-winning book is about the evolution of the police force and graft-busting in the city. . . [It] spans 50 years and is a tale about a prominent local policeman that takes in watershed events in Hong Kong, including the leftist riots in the 1960s, the Sino-British negotiations, the 1997 handover and the Sars outbreak in 2003. It is likely to strike a chord.”—South China Morning Post

“With the police force and social conflicts as its background, covering 50 years of politics, history and economics, intertwined with clever detective fiction, [The Borrowed] fits peculiarly with the current social situation in Hong Kong, and will surely stir up readers’ emotions.”—Macau Closer

"This naturally reminded me of Soji Shimada, and the strength of his detective Takeshi Yoshiki’s passion and determination to unravel clues. I also thought of . . . American novelist Ed McBain . . . The strong sense of social responsibility in the books by the Swedish Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö came to mind too."—OKAPI

Notă biografică

Chan Ho-kei was born and raised in Hong Kong. He has worked as software engineer, script writer, game designer and editor of comic magazines. His writing career started with the short story “The Murder Case of Jack and the Beanstalk,” which was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of Taiwan Award. He won the award the next year with “The Locked Room of Bluebeard.” Chan’s first novel, The Man Who Sold the World, won the Soji Shimada Mystery Award, the biggest mystery award in the Chinese-language world, and was published in five languages.