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On Java Road

Lawrence Osborne


  • Random House - Vintage Books
A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this rousing 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 showed no sign of ending: evenings were overflowing with wine dinners, days with laughably easy assignments.

ISBN 9781529114959 | EN | PB
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Publisher Random House - Vintage Books
ISBN 9781529114959
Publication date August 2023
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 198 x 129 mm
Pages 240
Language(s) English ed.
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A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this rousing 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 showed no sign of ending: evenings were overflowing with wine dinners, days with laughably easy assignments. But now the streets are overrun by 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 secretive 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. Adrian is alone - an unwelcome foreigner in a hostile land - desperately chasing 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.