Clavell clambered aboard the luxuriously fitted stretch limo at their hotel a half-hour later, and we were off. Reason and economics prevailed over romanticism, though, and we compromised on a chat during the journey from mid-Manhattan to Kennedy.
``Why don't you come along, too, and we can do the interview in the air?'' ``I'm taking the Concorde to London tomorrow morning,'' he had said, when contacted by telephone at his hotel the night before. He is being interviewed in the rear seat of his limo, en route to Kennedy Airport. A tour-de-force of historical fiction, rich in detail yet eminently readable, Tai-Pan will stay with you long after the final page.Īn iBooks bestseller in Fiction & Literature``It might well be that China won't possess Hong Kong in 1997., but Hong Kong will possess China,'' predicts James Clavell, author of the best-selling novel ``Noble House,'' on which the new miniseries ``James Clavell's Noble House'' is based. Ambition, political intrigue, and love and lust weave their way throughout the novel the New York Times called, “grand entertainment…packed with action…with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder.” East and West come together in an opulent and intricately plotted narrative. Struan must fight to save his company and his family, or risk seeing everything he has created destroyed at the hands of his sworn enemy. Over the years, their two families will cross paths, threatening to rip both apart, with reverberations that will echo across the generations. Struan and Brock come to control much of England’s trade with China yet neither can control their desires or their hatred of each other.
War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies’ wealth-the opium trade is still booming. Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan’s. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. He is now the Tai-Pan-Supreme Leader-of all Tai-Pans in China. The sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavellĭirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company.
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