品牌：Bartle Bull
基本信息·出版社：Da Capo Press
·页码：320 页
·出版日期：2004年
·ISBN：0786714867
·条形码：9780786714865
·装帧：平装
·英语：英语
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内容简介A masterful storyteller at the top of his form, Bartle Bull follows the successes of his popular Africa trilogy—A Café on the Nile, The White Rhino Hotel, and The Devil’s Oasis—with a rousing historical adventure. Shanghai Station is a compelling tale of political terror and personal vengeance that unfolds in 1918 in China’s colorful, turbulent port city of Shanghai. Well-born Alexander Karlov arrives in Shanghai with a mission, for the Bolsheviks have brutally killed his mother and abducted his twin sister. Vengeance commands Alexander’s soul. It also entangles him in perilous alliances—with the Cossack hit man Ivan Semyonov; with Mei-lan, a woman who knows Shanghai’s darkest secrets; with "Big Ear," leader of the city’s most powerful Triad; with the French police; and with a spirited young American woman who calls herself Jesse James.
媒体推荐"Bull is back with another bloody good atmospheric...historic swashbuckler."
编辑推荐From Publishers Weekly
Shifting his setting from Cafe on the Nile's mid-1930s Africa, Bull is back with another bloody good atmospheric (and frankly erotic) historic swashbuckler, this time set in Shanghai at the end of WWI. Fleeing the Bolsheviks in September 1918, 17-year-old Alexander Karlov and his mother and twin sister abandon their vast Russian estate (where five generations of his family have bred and trained black chargers for the czars) and take the Trans-Siberian railway 4,000 miles east to the port of Vladivostok, intending to reunite with Count Karlov, Alexander's soldier/father. When the train is attacked by Bolsheviks and Alexander's leg is broken, he must look helplessly on as his mother is murdered and his sister kidnapped by ruthless commissar Viktor Polyak. Taking their prize horses, Alexander and his father escape Vladivostok on a freighter just ahead of the Bolsheviks, looking to make a new life in exotic Shanghai. There, Mao Zedong and Soviet agent Mikhail Borodin are urging the downtrodden Chinese peasants to revolution, and Jessica James, 18, the impressionable daughter of passive missionaries, has come under Mao's thrall. Alexander barely sets foot on shore when, in rapid-fire order, he succumbs to the charms of his rich cousin's wanton mistress, rescues Shanghai's most infamous madam and helps his father establish Salle d'Armes, a riding and fencing school-all this before he meets Jesse, becomes a racing jockey and gets revenge on Polyak. Typical of Bull's sweeping epics, this unflinchingly gory yarn evokes the sights, sounds, tastes and scents of a splendidly decadent era.
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FromBooklist
From the author ofA Cafe on the Nile(1998) andThe Devil's Oasis(2001) comes another exotic tale populated with an ethnically diverse and ever-overlapping cast of characters. As Mao Tse-tung begins preaching revolution and Soviet agents infiltrate neighboring China, cultures clash and fates intertwine in the international port city of Shanghai in 1918. Alexander Karlov is an aristocratic young Russian seeking vengeance against the Bolsheviks who murdered his mother and kidnapped his sister. Viktor Polyak, the Russian commissar who led the assault on the Karlov family, is waging a brutal underground war against Russian emigres who have settled in Shanghai. He enlists the help of Jessica James, the idealistic and politically naive daughter of American missionaries. Eventually realizing she has been duped, Jessica joins forces with Alexander to bring Polyak down. Once again, Bull is able to reach back in time, authentically replicating the sights, sounds, and texture of a chaotic time and place in history. Moving along at a dizzying clip, this tautly crafted adventure will entertain and enthrall a wide spectrum of readers.Margaret Flanagan
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Review
"Bull is back with another bloody good atmospheric...historic swashbuckler."
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