5/20/2023 0 Comments 1981 james clavell novelBut though he sketches the boat people of Aberdeen Harbor and other peasants, nothing much happens to them but the weather, most of his interest being on the moneyed elite, particularly the entrepreneurial buccaneers. He spent all of 1963 there, has been back each of the past six years, and has the geography down pat: Victoria, Kowloon, the Golden Ferry - they're all here. And Clavell refutes the old French saying, "The most beautiful woman can't give you any more than she's got," by getting even more out of Hong Kong than it has. Hong Kong is not one of those places where there's no there there. This place and its people caught up in an intricate multi-textured plot ensure that "Noble House" will be Clavell's biggest triumph yet. Most of the story's action is compressed into a single week in August 1963 in Hong Kong. James Clavell, after two best sellers ("King Rat," 1962 and "Tai-pan," 1966) and one blockbuster ("Shogun," 1975), comes forth now with "Noble House," a 1,200-plus page book with a massive firtst printing of 250,000 copies.
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