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| Title | : | Noble House (Asian Saga: Chronological Order #5) |
| Author | : | James Clavell |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1376 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 1986 by Dell (first published April 1981) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Asia. China |
James Clavell
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 1376 pages Rating: 4.25 | 35980 Users | 520 Reviews
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This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13: 9780440164845.The tai-pan, Ian Dunross, struggles to rescue Struan's from the precarious financial position left by his predecessor. To do this, he seeks partnership with an American millionaire, while trying to ward off his arch-rival Quillan Gornt, who seeks to destroy Struan's once and for all. Meanwhile, Chinese communists, Taiwanese nationalists, and Soviet spies illegally vie for influence in Hong Kong while the British government seeks to prevent this. And nobody, it seems, can get anything done without enlisting the aid of Hong Kong's criminal underworld. Other obstacles include water shortages, landslides, bank runs and stock market crashes.
Nov. 1987 Dell jumbo mass market paperback, 21st printing. James Clavell.
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| Original Title: | Noble House |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Asian Saga: Chronological Order #5, Asian Saga: Publication Order #4 |
| Characters: | Ian Dunross, K.C. Tcholok, Linc Bartlett, Quillan Gornt |
| Setting: | Hong Kong,1963 |
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Ratings: 4.25 From 35980 Users | 520 ReviewsJudgment Regarding Books Noble House (Asian Saga: Chronological Order #5)
Written in 1981 but set in 1963, Noble House is the flip side view of Hong Kong from another novel set in the colony during the late 1950s, The World of Suzie Wong. Whereas Suzie Wong was a sympathetic portrait of cheongsam clad prostitutes desperate to survive in the muck and poverty of Hong Kong, Noble House is a lengthy soap opera detailing cheongsam clad dragon ladies and their wealthy husbands and boyfriends. This is not meant to disparage Noble House, where once again James ClavellIf you haven't read James Clavell's Asian Saga you are depriving yourself of an amazing journey that begins in the 15th century in Japan's feudal Shogunate period, capturing your attention and your imagination with "Shogun," and refuses to let go as you move through the series with Tai Pan, Gai Jin, King Rat, Noble House and finally Whirlwind. Clavell was an incredible story-teller who opens up a world and a culture largely unknown to those of us in the West, and it is a profound loss to the
The follow up to Tai-pan. Clavell famously visited Hong Kong and ingratiated himself with the high society of the island. He based his story around many real events, which he garnered from those very same socialites. The building that tumbled down the mountain side during inclement weather was owned by my old landlord, Oscar Wong. He used to tell me of the day james Clavell came to interview him about that night. An epic battle between the Jardine's, Swire and the new Chinese Hong's who started
Not the best story, but some of the best characters out there. Also, the reader for the audiobook version is amazingly versatile. I do recommend giving it a chance as audiobook, although it's 54.5 h long...
The summer of 1990, I worked on a project in Phoenix, AZ. For 6 or 8 weeks, I flew every Sunday afternoon from Dallas to Phoenix and flew home Friday night. I was the only project team member in Phoenix, and my personality is not the kind to go out exploring on my own. So a summer of plane flights and evenings alone were the perfect time to read this book. I had a wonderful hotel room with a balcony facing northwest and almost every evening I would return to the hotel and sit out on the balcony
The Asian Saga: the story of a Hong Kong business dynasty.
Another fantastic part of Clavell's Asian Saga, this continues the story of the Noble House, created by Dirk Struan in Tai-Pan & continued in Gai-Jin. It is set in Hong Kong & takes place over a week or so in 1963. There are a LOT of words for such a short time period. It's not as tight a story as Tai-Pan, but similar in many other respects.Tai-Pan took place in 1841, the founding of Hong Kong. It follows the trials & tribulations of Dirk Struan. This book, Noble House, follows the
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