Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
Out of Time in Wan Chai - cover

We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy!

Out of Time in Wan Chai

Fan Tong

Publisher: BlueLettuce Publishing

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

From a not too distant past in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong, take: 
1. An idealistic revolutionary: a dreamer but nevertheless a bright young lady. 
2. A heavy set French man: a quiet, aging arms dealer. 
3. A cop, somewhat corrupted. 
Immerse them all in a tram preheated by political unrest. 
First boil, then leave to cool in icy hatred and cold-blooded revenge. 
Serve with just a splash of blood and spice with the zest of love.  
Finally, taste without fear, and experience, along with the characters in this story, the feeling of being somewhat 'out of time'.
Available since: 09/16/2019.

Other books that might interest you

  • Hunter's Moon - cover

    Hunter's Moon

    William W. Johnstone, J. A....

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Ex–Rebel tracker Hunter Buchanon and his faithful coyote Bobby Lee come face to face—and tooth and claw—with the biggest, fiercest killer they've ever known . . .CURSE OF THE GRIZZLY MOONA cattle ranch stalked by the ultimate predator. A heiffer gutted and beheaded by razor-sharp claws. A ranch hand crushed and shredded by powerful jaws. According to legend—foretold by Sioux Chief Red Otter—the attacks are an omen of terrible things to come. When a grizzly attacks a man or his property during a blue moon, it is a sign that the bear has been sent from someone on the other side seeking revenge against the man that killed him. And that man—the avenger's true target—is Hunter Buchanon . . .To end the curse, Hunter must hunt down the grizzly and kill it—before it kills him and everyone he loves. He sets off into the wilderness for the final showdown between predator and prey. But this time, Hunter is the hunted . . .
    Show book
  • Barren Island - cover

    Barren Island

    Carol Zoref

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    How does one remember a world that literally no longer exists? How do the moral imperatives to do so correspond to the personal needs that make it possible? Told from the point-of-view of Marta Eisenstein Lane on the occasion of her eightieth birthday, Barren Island is the story of a factory island in New York's Jamaica Bay, where the city's dead horses and other large animals were rendered into glue and fertilizer from the mid-nineteenth century until the 1930s. The island itself is as central to the story as the members of the Jewish, Greek, Italian, Irish, and African-American factory families that inhabit it, including those who live their entire lives steeped in the smell of burning animal flesh. 
    The story begins with the arrival of the Eisenstein family, immigrants from Eastern Europe, and explores how the political and social upheavals of the 1930s affect them and their neighbors in the years between the stock market crash of October 1929 and the start of World War II ten years later. Labor strife, union riots, the New Deal, the World's Fair, and the struggle to save European Jews from the growing threat of Nazi terror inform this novel as much as the explosion of civil and social liberties between the two World Wars.
    Show book
  • Water Gypsies - cover

    Water Gypsies

    Annie Murray

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    It is 1942, and after a childhood of suffering in Birmingham, Maryann Bartholomew has built a life of happiness and safety with her husband Joel and their children, working the canals on his narrowboat, the Esther Jane. But the back-breaking work and constant childbearing take their toll on Maryann, and the tragic loss of her old friend Nancy, followed by a further pregnancy lead her to a desperate act which nearly costs her her life. 
    The walls of her security are broken down when Joel suffers an accident, and to keep the boats working, Maryann is forced to allow Sylvia and Dot, two wartime volunteers, into the privacy of their life. And when she discovers that someone keeps calling for her at Birmingham's Tyseley Wharf, the dark memories of her past begin to overwhelm her life. For that someone, who seems to be watching her every move, is becoming more dangerous that even she could imagine . . .  
    Sequel to The Narrowboat Girl, Water Gypsies by Annie Murray is the gripping story of life on the Birmingham canals.
    Show book
  • Mad Richard - cover

    Mad Richard

    Lesley Krueger

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    A riveting story of talent and the price it exacts, set in a richly imagined Victorian England
     
    Called the most promising artist of his generation, handsome, modest, and affectionate, Richard Dadd rubbed shoulders with the great luminaries of the Victorian Age. He grew up along the Medway with Charles Dickens and studied at the Royal Academy Schools under the brilliant and eccentric J.M.W. Turner.
     
    Based on Dadd’s tragic true story, Mad Richard follows the young artist as he develops his craft, contemplates the nature of art and fame — as he watches Dickens navigate those tricky waters — and ultimately finds himself imprisoned in Bedlam for murder, committed as criminally insane.
     
    In 1853, Charlotte Brontë — about to publish her third novel, suffering from unrequited love, and herself wrestling with questions about art and artists, class, obsession and romance — visits Richard at Bedlam and finds an unexpected kinship in his feverish mind and his haunting work.
     
    Masterfully slipping through time and memory, Mad Richard maps the artistic temperaments of Charlotte and Richard, weaving their divergent lives together with their shared fears and follies, dreams, and crushing illusions.
    Show book
  • The Heart Remembers - cover

    The Heart Remembers

    Margaret Redfern

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Sequel to the The Storyteller's Granddaughter.
    
    
    
    Leaving? What is that? It means nothing. While the heart remembers there is no leaving.
    
    
    
    Welshman, Dai, a trader, and his motley band of fellow-travellers have landed in Venice, their welcome marred by a vicious quarrel on the quayside. It is an omen of troubles to come. Here, men are tortured to death at the pointing of a suspicious finger. In the English Fens, Edgar and Agathi face an incomer intent on stealing their inheritance. In Wales, Edward the English king is stamping hard on a proud people dangerously outnumbered.
    
    
    
    Intent on finding her English grandfather - Will the Wordmaker - Kazan, as her companions know her, will need all her talents and wiles simply to stay alive. Half a year later, where the River Mawddach reaches the Irish Sea, where Will began his journey, an ending is reached … and for Sophia, the storyteller's granddaughter, a new beginning.
    
    
    
    A thrilling picaresque adventure in storytelling from the author of Flint and The Storyteller's Granddaughter.
    Show book
  • The Widow's Christmas Surprise - cover

    The Widow's Christmas Surprise

    Jenna Jaxon

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Maria just gave birth to her first child, a beautiful daughter, but the event is shrouded in sorrow. A month earlier, Maria’s husband, Lord Kersey, was killed in a duel under compromising circumstances. Worse, Maria’s failure to provide a male heir has stripped her of any hope of an inheritance. Scorned by the ton, one of her few allies is her late husband’s steward, Hugh Granger. Hugh is everything her husband was not—warm, charming...and penniless. Hugh has fallen desperately in love with Maria but has little to offer but comfort. As their attraction becomes impossible to resist, Maria flees to London to spend Christmas with her dearest friends, a group of widows who lost their own husbands in the Battle of Waterloo. Little does she know that the holidays will reveal a twist of fate she never expected—proving that the greatest Christmas gift is the magic of true love.
    Show book