The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery. A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of
These Violent Delights
โ Scribed by Micah Nemerever
- Book ID
- 100296258
- Publisher
- Harper
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 770 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062963659
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โฆ Synopsis
A Newsweek 25 Best Fall Books**โข A Philadelphia Inquirer 10 Big Books for the Fall โข An O Magazine.com LGBTQ Book That Is Changing the Literary Landscape in 2020 โข An Electric Lit Most Anticipated Debut of the Second Half of 2020 โข AThe MillionsMost Anticipated Book of the Yearโข **A Paperback Paris Best New LGBTQ+ Books To Read This Year Selection
The Secret History meets Lie with Me in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novel --a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence.
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