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From internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War.



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‘A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it’ Janice Y.K. Lee, author of The Piano Teacher

‘Sumptuously plotted…Lam goes for the jugular, combining an operatic love story…with evocations of Vietnam’s occupation by the Japanese and the later horrors of the Viet Cong’ New York Times Book Review

‘A masterfully paced exploration of a world convulsed by war, wherein faith and reason no longer hold sway…[Lam] depicts a world caught in an implacable cycle of violence, leavened only by the grace of a father's love’ Publishers Weekly

‘Hugely impressive…powerful and engrossing…The Headmaster’s Wager has the makings of a masterpiece’ The Globe and Mail

The Headmasters Wager

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd
      Published 11 April 2013
      ISBN-13 9780007263837
      978-0007263837
      ISBN-10 000726383X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War.



      Trade Review

      ‘A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it’ Janice Y.K. Lee, author of The Piano Teacher

      ‘Sumptuously plotted…Lam goes for the jugular, combining an operatic love story…with evocations of Vietnam’s occupation by the Japanese and the later horrors of the Viet Cong’ New York Times Book Review

      ‘A masterfully paced exploration of a world convulsed by war, wherein faith and reason no longer hold sway…[Lam] depicts a world caught in an implacable cycle of violence, leavened only by the grace of a father's love’ Publishers Weekly

      ‘Hugely impressive…powerful and engrossing…The Headmaster’s Wager has the makings of a masterpiece’ The Globe and Mail

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