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The glass kingdom : a novel / Lawrence Osborne.
"Leaving New York for the heat, humidity and anonymity of Bangkok, Sarah arrives in Thailand with the sole desire to lose herself, a stranger in a strange land. Yet she also leaves behind a complicated past, and a deception she holds close to her chest. Taking up a lease at a high-end apartment complex called The Kingdom, she finds herself drawn into the close-knit social circle of three very different, but equally mysterious, ex-pat women: Ximena, the Chilean chef, creator of fine and delicious culinary creations; Nat, the British hotelier with the curious husband and even more curious maid; and the alluring Mali, who takes Sarah into her glittering world with all its shadow-play. As attempted coups wrack the city and political chaos erupts on the streets below, so do tensions within the gilded world of the compound. When a tenant in the building goes missing, and the disorder of the outside world begins to invade The Kingdom, the residents are thrown into unprecedented terror and suspicion. The question Sarah must now ask herself is: Who can she trust?"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781984824301 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781781090787
- ISBN: 1984824309
- ISBN: 1781090785
- ISBN: 9781781090794
- ISBN: 1781090793
- Physical Description: 292 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: London ; Hogarth, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
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| Subject: | Apartment houses > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. Coups d'état > Fiction. Missing persons > Fiction. Thailand > Social conditions > 21st century > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | OSBOR L (Text) | 33126024164042 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Fleeing to Bangkok with a suitcase of money to hide in plain sight in a luxury high-rise, Sarah bonds with a circle of ex-pat women before political chaos and military coup attempts turn the apartment's residents against each other. - Random House, Inc.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ⢠A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORSâ CHOICE ⢠A tense, stunningly well-observed novel of a young American on the run, from Lawrence Osborne, âan heir to Graham Greeneâ (The New York Times Book Review)
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âBangkok is the star of this accomplished novel. Its denizens are aliens to themselves, glittering on the horizon of their own lives, movingârestless and rootless and afraidâthough a cityscape that has more stories than they know.ââHilary Mantel, Booker Prizeâwinning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
Escaping New York for the anonymity of Bangkok, Sarah Mullins arrives in Thailand on the lam with nothing more than a suitcase of purloined money. Her plan is to lie low and map out her next move in a high-end apartment complex called the Kingdom, whose glass-fronted façade boasts views of the bustling city and glimpses into the vast honeycomb of lives within.Â
It is not long before she meets the alluring Mali doing laps in the apartment pool, a fellow tenant determined to bring the quiet American out of her shell. An invitation to Maliâs weekly poker nights follows, andâfueled by shots of yadong, good food, and gossipâSarah soon falls in with the Kingdomâs glamorous circle of ex-pat women.
But as political chaos erupts on the streets below and attempted uprisings wrack the city, tensions tighten within the gilded compound. When the violence outside begins to invade the Kingdom in a series of strange disappearances, the residents are thrown into suspicion: both of the world beyond their windows and of one another. And under the constant surveillance of the buildingâs watchful inhabitants, Sarahâs safe haven begins to feel like a snare.
From a master of atmosphere and mood, The Glass Kingdom is a brilliantly unsettling story of civil and psychological unrest, and an enthralling study of karma and human greed.