EAN: 9781781090817

LAWRENCE OSBORNE - GEBRAUCHT ON JAVA ROAD ‘THE ...

A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student
protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the
acclaimed author of The Forgiven After twenty indolent years as an ex-pat reporter in Hong Kong
Englishman Adrian Gyle has almost nothing to show for it. The party gave no sign of ending:
nights burned away in private clubs and restaurants  days were spent on laughably easy
assignments. But now the streets are choked with students demanding democratic freedoms  and
the old world begins to fall apart. Watching from the skyrises overlooking the protests is
Adrian's old friend Jimmy Tang  the scion of a wealthy Hong Kong family  who has begun a
reckless affair with Rebecca  a leading pro-democracy protestor  full of idealism and reeking
of tear gas. The couple are dancing over the abyss  playing for time  and Adrian is drawn into
their clandestine romance with a mixture of complicity and envy. But when Rebecca disappears
and Jimmy goes to ground  Adrian unearths the familiar old urge to investigate  and personal
loyalties evaporate overnight. Now an unwelcome foreigner in a hostile land  Adrian must reckon
with these vanishings as old Hong Kong quietly slips off the stage. Pursuing Rebecca's ghost to
Java Road where the city's dead congregate  Adrian re-assembles her final hours - as he
struggles to distinguish between delusion and reality.

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