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Book SynopsisFrom 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
