"Adult Fiction." . . "Hong Kong (China) Social life and customs Fiction." . . "Roman." . . "Fiction." . . "China" . . "Legal stories." . . "Love stories." . . "Literary." . . "Lawyers' spouses China Hong Kong Fiction." . . "Englisch." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The man in the wooden hat" . "The man in the wooden hat"@en . . . . . . . . . "The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully lived life, -- The Man in the Wooden Hat."@en . . . "Da mêna ina da vuḍana hêṭa : prema, sūḍa, viśvāsaghāta āṇi rahasya yāmmadhūna sākāralelī utkaṇṭhāvardhaka kādambarī" . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . "Electronic books"@en . "Čovek sa drvenim šeširom" . . "Electronic books" . . "L'uomo col cappello di legno"@it . "L'uomo col cappello di legno" . . "La mujer del juez"@es . . "La mujer del juez" . "Publishers Weekly Review Starred Review. Octogenarian Gardam's latest, told with quintessentially British humor, bookends the two-time Whitbread winner's earlier novel, Old Filth, about a barrister who becomes a renowned lawyer in the Far East whose nickname, Filth, speaks volumes: failed in London, try Hong Kong. This book concentrates on the courtship and marriage of Filth and his wife, Betty, and then flits across the years to their final days, revealing a backstory of secret trysts and desires that each concealed from the other during their long, childless marriage. Filth and Betty's early days in Hong Kong tingle with the weight of the past: Betty spent the war starving in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai; Filth talks in his sleep in the passionate Malay of his childhood. The supporting characters in their steamy, crowded world are a bizarre lot (a card-flinging Chinese dwarf among them). Gardam's prose is witty and precise, and the hole in the middle of the story is obviously to be filled by reading (or rereading) Old Filth. (Nov.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information."@en . . . . . . . . "Love stories" . . . "Love stories"@en . . . . . "Legal stories"@en . . "The Man In The Wooden Hat"@en . . "Novel based on the lawyer's spouses married life and social life of Hong Kong, China." . . . . "Man in the wooden hat" . "Man in the wooden hat"@it . . . . . . "The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully lived life, Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, a book where life and art merge. And now that beautiful, haunting novel has been joined by a companion that also bursts with humor and wisdom: The Man in the Wooden Hat." . "Large type books" . . . . . "The Man in the Wooden Hat"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Tells the story of the fifty-year marriage of barrister Filth and his wife Betty, which is filled with secrets and hidden desires."@en . "Lawyers Hong Kong (China) Fiction." . . "Marriage Fiction." . . "Hong Kong (China)" . . "Marriage." . . "Manners and customs." . . . . "Lawyers' spouses." . .