Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Apocalypse Hotel : A Novel, Hardback Book

Apocalypse Hotel : A Novel Hardback

Part of the Modern Southeast Asian Literature series

Hardback

Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product

Description

Three violent deaths occur within days among a group of young nouveaux riches of Hanoi—but neither the victims nor the circumstances are as they seem.

Is fate responsible? Or a woman of extreme beauty and mystery? When Danang Publishing House risked bringing out Ho Anh Thai's controversial novel Cõi ngu?i rung chuông t?n th? (The Apocalypse Bell Tolls in the Human World) in 2002 after numerous others had refused it, Vietnam was a nation still struggling to find its identity decades after being torn apart by war.

Ho Anh Thai's previous stories and novels had already seized the imagination of a young postwar generation.

He had become a literary sensation even as a teenager, his fresh, fluid, luminous style capturing the essence of their modern Vietnam.

The book was a sensation in its author's home country: to date it has sold more than 50,000 copies in ten printings and has been received enthusiastically by both public and critics as a work of creativity and disturbing truth.

Now, as Apocalypse Hotel, Ho Anh Thai's dark fable draws English-language readers into the divided society of 1990s Vietnam, to an underground economy in which anything may be bought and sold, youth seek speed, sex, and thrills, and past crimes still haunt the pure and the guilty alike.

In this riveting, fast-paced cautionary tale, citizens of all ages and situations must come to grips with the sordid, unforeseen consequences of a war once meant to liberate them.

Also 04 Activeable in e-book formats, ISBN 978-0-89672-804-2.

Information

£26.95

Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information