... John – Firewatcher (55) Kitching, Jabez (husband, 59) Kitching, Lena (wife, 56) Kitching, Iris (daughter, 20) Lammiman, Annie Elizabeth (64) Lister, Bessie (mother, 27) Lister, Robert William (son, 5) Longthorn, Harry (31) Lyons, ...
Moreover , Mui , seeing her daughter's wonder at a guppy in a fishbowl , alludes to increasing harbor pollution when she tells the young girl that ' once upon a time fish swam in the water . In their critique of the Hong Kong ...
City on Fire is an unforgettable novel about love and betrayal and forgiveness, about art and truth and rock ’n’ roll: about what people need from each other in order to live—and about what makes the living worth doing in the first ...
The oilman's daughter feels something that day in church, something that a handful of other people would also eventually admit to experiencing. The new priest, she very sheepishly says, has a glow about him. She has never thought much ...
A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong’s revolution. Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned....
New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel, and The Border), The Force, and Broken comes the first novel in an epic new trilogy. “Superb.
"The first novel in an epic crime saga from the New York Times bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy and The Force"--
Nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Award, City on Fire returns to the world-city of Metropolitan, a city dominated by plasm, the magical substance capable of both creation and destruction.
This sequel to Metropolitan finds Constantine in control over a segment of the vast world-city that covers the globe. Aiah, his disciple and somethimes lover, continues to support the man...
A big-hearted, boundary-vaulting novel that heralds a remarkable new talent.
The individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's largest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and ...
City on Fire demonstrates that both public and private engagements with fire risk highlight the inequalities that characterized Mexican society at the turn of the twentieth century.
And for the first time, average citizens confronted their government in the nation's highest court. City on Fire is a painstakingly researched saga of one of the most profound, but forgotten, disasters in American history.