Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
08.04.2026
Verlag
Black Lantern PublishingSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
443 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798235315136
Shanghai, 1937.
The city is divided but still functioning - a fragile anomaly of treaty law and routine holding back the advance of war. In the French Concession, Alexei Volkov makes a living moving things that cannot be moved openly: artifacts, money, documents, histories.
When he is hired to extract a prestigious Chinese antiquities collection from Nanshi before the Japanese army arrives, the job appears difficult but straightforward. It is neither.
A prior sale to a Japanese collector, a divided household, and a rapidly collapsing timeline turn the operation into a negotiation between power, ownership, and survival. As the city reorganizes around him, Alexei must broker a solution that satisfies everyone - and no one - while ensuring the collection escapes before it is lost entirely.
The Settlement Fence is a precise, atmospheric historical novel about systems under pressure, the quiet mechanics of survival, and the people who operate in the narrow spaces between law and reality. It is a story of transactions that become moral decisions, and of what remains when everything else is in motion.
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