{"product_id":"9781781090817","title":"On Java Road -- Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author of The Forgiven\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter twenty indolent years as an ex-pat reporter in Hong Kong, Englishman Adrian Gyle has almost nothing to show for it. The party gave no sign of ending: nights burned away in private clubs and restaurants; days were spent on laughably easy assignments. But now the streets are choked with students demanding democratic freedoms, and the old world begins to fall apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWatching from the skyrises overlooking the protests is Adrian's old friend Jimmy Tang, the scion of a wealthy Hong Kong family, who has begun a reckless affair with Rebecca, a leading pro-democracy protestor, full of idealism and reeking of tear gas. The couple are dancing over the abyss, playing for time, and Adrian is drawn into their clandestine romance with a mixture of complicity and envy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut when Rebecca disappears and Jimmy goes to ground, Adrian unearths the familiar old urge to investigate, and personal loyalties evaporate overnight. Now an unwelcome foreigner in a hostile land, Adrian must reckon with these vanishings as old Hong Kong quietly slips off the stage. Pursuing Rebecca's ghost to Java Road where the city's dead congregate, Adrian re-assembles her final hours - as he struggles to distinguish between delusion and reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42452749123659,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":712.29,"currency_code":"THB","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.co.th\/th\/products\/9781781090817","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Thailand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}