The Fan Tan Players

THE FAN TAN PLAYERS opens in 1928 in Macao on a cyclone-drenched Quasimodo Sunday. NadiaShashkova, now in her late twenties, but originally a child refugee from pre-revolutionary Russia, iscontemplating her diminishing marital prospects. None of the Portuguese suitors who pay their respectsappeal to her in the slightest. Independent, astute, an outsider, Nadia is haunted by secrets from herchildhood, memories of violence and rupture, and one terrible secret above all others will not let her go. EnterIain Sutherland, an enigmatic Scot who is, officially, a British Consular representative, and who is veryinterested in Nadia for a number of reasons. As Nadia and Iain learn about each others' histories, neither ofthem can anticipate what the future holds for each of them - a journey into Russia to find something that has been lost, internment in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, a courageous rescue. THE FAN TAN PLAYERSis an opulent family saga, set in Macao, Russia, the Scottish Highlands and Hong Kong in the 1920s, 1930sand 1940s. Exotic and beautifully written, it is a story of love, history, adversity and adventure.


Genre: Literary Fiction