04107cam a2200925 4500 523491871 TxAuBib 20210905120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307986474 0307986470 B008C84BYI Amazon dd389fef-03f6-4f94-a180-309ab81f8caa OverDrive (Reserve ID) 97423 97423 97423 844352 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lam, Vincent. The Headmaster's Wager [Libby]. Random House Publishing Group, 2012. Viet Cong. Vietnam. literary fiction. War. Cultural. heritage. Historical. 1960s. romance. wartime. Canadian. Canadian Literature. Fiction. father and son. novels. Chinese. love. love story. Traditional. Asian. China. Historical Fiction. foreigner. fathers and sons. novel. communist. Historical Romance. Vietnam War. saigon. forbidden love. ESL. gambling. Alternate History. fiction books. Indochina. romance books. romance novels. chinese communism. mahjong tables. tet offensive. historical fiction novels. historical fiction books. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2268kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:<b>A superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting debut novel about one man’s loyalty to his country, his family and his heritage</b><br /> <b>&#160;</b><br /> 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.&#160;<br /> <br /> 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... Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:20:50. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/DD3/89F/EF/HeadmastersWager9780307986474.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DD389FEF-03F6-4F94-A180-309AB81F8CAA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/DD3/89F/EF/HeadmastersWager9780307986474.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DD389FEF-03F6-4F94-A180-309AB81F8CAA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/DD3/89F/EF/HeadmastersWager9780307986474.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DD389FEF-03F6-4F94-A180-309AB81F8CAA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXTLL