Description
A long terrible night was ending. And amidst the horror and espair was a passion that would rise from the ashes of turmoil.
From the mill towns of the north of England in the decade after the First World War, Jakob Kellner brings crusading zeal to a once proud China – besieged by a crippling malaise Christianity can no longer salve. As the marchers gather in southern Hunan, he becomes entangled in a love that will outlive a nation’s shattered dream.
With Peking Anthony Grey, the bestselling author of Saigon, enshrines in towering fiction the turbulent half century conflict, struggle and idealism which marks China’s historic revolution.
From the self-sacrificing beginnings of the Long March to the human suffering at the core of the Cultural revolution, Peking is a novel of heroism, rivalry, love and forgiveness – an epic masterpiece to mirror the vastness and grandeur of China’s compelling history.
‘Gripping fiction…part epic, part blockbuster’ The Times
Paperback, 645 pages. In excellent preloved condition.