Dynasty

Dynasty

نویسنده: Robert Elegant
ناشر: Fontana
زبان کتاب: انگلیسی
تعداد صفحه: 670
اندازه کتاب: جیبی - سال انتشار: 1977 - دوره چاپ: 1

کمیاب - کیفیت : درحد نو

مروری بر کتاب

A story of three generations of the Sekloongs, Hong Kong merchant princes. The narrative follows the lives of the Sekloong brothers who are divided by ambition and adultery in a country torn apart by revolution.

Founder of the Sekloong dynasty of Hong Kong, Sir Jonathan, the illegitimate offspring of an Irish adventurer and his Chinese mistress, overcame colonial prejudice to build a vast and influential trading empire spanning half a century. The marriage of Sir Jonathan’s profligate son Charles to the ambitious and beautiful Mary Osgood comes to embody, on both personal and political levels, the tensions between Orient and Occident, and between Nationalists and Communists fighting for control of postimperial China