Wuhan

In 1937, during the war in China, Wuhan was appointed as the wartime capital. Wuhan stands alone against a whirlwind of war and violence, and the citizens of Wuhan make heroic efforts to halt the Japanese. This is a historical fiction epic that pulls no punches, portraying the horrors of war and the moral challenges it poses.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 768 pages
Publication date: 14 April 2022
Publisher: Head of Zeus

A multi-stranded historical epic set in China in 1937, when Wuhan stood alone against a whirlwind of war and violence. Fletcher impresses in this searing debut. Fletcher makes all his characters realistic, even if they only appear briefly, and excels at portraying the horrors of war and the moral challenges it poses. Fans of J.G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun will be riveted. Publishers Weekly, Starred Review. 1937. CHINA IS AT WAR. Soldiers of the Empire of Japan sweep through the country, killing and displacing the millions who stand in their way. As vast swathes of the country fall to the invaders, Wuhan, an industrial city in the center of China, is appointed wartime capital. While the rest of the world looks the other way, the citizens of Wuhan stand alone against a whirlwind of violence – transforming militarily, educationally, medically, and culturally. Their heroic efforts halted the Japanese. Weaving together a multitude of narratives, Wuhan is a historical fiction epic that pulls no punches: the heart-in-mouth tale of a peasant family forced onto a thousand-mile refugee death march; the story of Lao She – China's greatest writer – leaving his family in a war zone to assist with the propaganda effort in Wuhan; the hellish battlefields of the Sino-Japanese war; the approaching global conflict seen through a host of colorful characters – from Chiang Kai-Shek, China's nationalist leader, to Peter Fleming, a British journalist based in Wuhan and the prototype for his younger brother Ian Fleming's James Bond.

Weight: 514g
Dimension: 129 x 199 x 58 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800249899