An Insular Possession
#2532 of 8,085 books · #376 in Historical Fiction
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1986).
Two young American jettison their careers to start an irreverent weekly paper, in this novel about corruption, greed, race, love, and treachery in Macao and Canton during the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century.
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- ISBN-13
- 9780394554303
- Topics
- Opium Wars and colonialismCorruption and greedRace and cultural conflict
Awards
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(1986)
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