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The Headmaster's Wager

Vincent Lam

Hardcover | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 3.87 | 4506 Users | 641 Reviews

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Title	:	The Headmaster's Wager
Author	:	Vincent Lam
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	April 24th 2012 by Doubleday Canada (first published January 1st 2012)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. War. Cultural. Canada. Asia

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A superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting debut novel about one man's loyalty to his country, his family and his heritage

Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English academy in 1960s Saigon, and he is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials in order to maintain the elite status of his school. Fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, he is quick to spot the business opportunities rife in a divided country, though he also harbors a weakness for gambling haunts and the women who frequent them. He devotedly ignores all news of the fighting that swirls around him, but when his only son gets in trouble with the Vietnamese authorities, Percival faces the limits of his connections and wealth and is forced to send him away.

In the loneliness that follows, Percival finds solace in Jacqueline, a beautiful woman of mixed French and Vietnamese heritage whom he is able to confide in. But Percival's new-found happiness is precarious, and as the complexities of war encroach further into his world, he must confront the tragedy of all he has refused to see.

Graced with intriguingly flawed but wonderfully human characters moving through a richly drawn historical landscape, The Headmaster's Wager is an unforgettable story of love, betrayal and sacrifice.

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ISBN:	0385661452 (ISBN13: 9780385661454)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Vietnam
Literary Awards:	Canadian Authors Association Award Nominee for Fiction (2013), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2013)

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Ratings: 3.87 From 4506 Users | 641 Reviews

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A page-turner and I learned a lot about Vietnam and the war.

This is a great read, a page turner from start to finish. Anger, excitement, suspense, intrigue, violence and love intricately woven into a moving and heartbreaking story.

This was a 4.5 star book for me.In this magnificently ambition tale a politically naïve Percival Chen, the headmaster of a successful English academy in 1960s Saigon believes in the superiority of his Chinese heritage and the value bribes are the keys to his success. After all this has worked with past conquerors, the Japanese, the French and the Americansno matter how temporary their stay but being oblivious to the newest player for control will challenge Percival beyond his nightmares. I was

Epic story, heartbreaking, history lesson.

Vincent Lam's THE HEADMASTER'S WAGER is a suspenseful character study set mainly in Vietnam during the civil war, told from a perspective that is unfamiliar to most Americans, that of a Chinese expat, Perceval Chen, who has lived in Vietnam for decades. Perceval still considers himself Chinese and has no real interest in assimilating to the culture of his adopted home. In reality, he is a man with no countryhe just doesnt know it yet. The suspense comes in the slow building of the disaster that

Stayed up tonight finishing this book. Lam's masterpiece weaves a narrative arch from the perspective of its protagonist, Percival Chen, beginning in pre-Revolutionary mainland China continuing to Hong Kong in the face of Japanese imperialism, to Vietnam under the French and Japanese, through the American occupation and finally to the North Vietnamese victory. Through this narrative we are introduced lovingly to the traditions of Chinese culture through the experiences of an expatriate whose