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An Insular Possession

An Insular Possession

Author(s): Timothy Mo

Location(s): Canton, Hong Kong, Macau (Macao)

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): First half 1800s

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A hardback best-seller and nominee for the Booker Prize, finally back in print after three years of rights battles, this literary masterpiece documents the first Anglo-Chinese Opium War through the eyes of two young Americans on the China Coast in the 1830s.

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Epic. Sweeping – all the grand adjectives for big, impressive novels come to mind. Beautifully combines fact and fiction.

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