The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics
By (Author) Nury Vittachi
4
Allen & Unwin
Allen & Unwin
8th June 2006
Australia
General
Fiction
894
336
Width 130mm, Height 195mm
308g
CF Wong is a simple man. All he asks is to be left alone to rake in the cash from his feng shui business and to enjoy the good things in life. But that doesn't seem to be the way events are going, currently: his office is being demolished around his ears, his renogade assistant, Joyce, has lost her marbles and become a vegetarian, and his dinner's been interrupted by a group of vegan terrorists with guns.
And then there's the white elephant and the bomb and the biggest traffic jam in Shanghai's very long history. It is definitely not looking like an auspicious day.
Welcome to the latest instalment in the Feng Shui Detective series. Nury Vittachi mixes the caustic humour of Carl Hiaasen with the charm of Alexander McCall-Smith to create a vivid, heady and delightful dance through Asian philosophy, whodunnit and today's China.
Nury Vittachi was born in Ceylon and now lives with his English wife and three Chinese children in Hong Kong, where he has published many books. He writes the popular Traveller's Tales page in the Far Eastern Economic Review, and has worked for the South China Morning Post.
Nury's most recent book, The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics, is the latest in the Feng Shui Detective series.