All the Tea in China
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ISBN: 9780241971765
Издательство: Penguin Books
Автор: Kyril Bonfiglioli
2014. 272 S. All the Tea in China - a
Mortdecai novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli, soon to be a major film starring
Johnny Depp. "One of the funniest writers ever". (Uncut). After
committing a crime anyone but a close relative might forgive, Karli
Mortdecai Van Cleef leaves Holland double-quick with his uncle's
buckshot lodged firmly in the seat of his breeches. Discretion being the
least-idiotic part of valour he decides to hide far away in London,
among the tea shops and opium dens. On savouring these Eastern
delicacies and knowing an opportunity when he sups upon one, young Karli
throws in his lot with an opium clipper bound for China's high seas.
Life on the ocean waves, however, is full of perils for an officer and
his sensitive digestive tract: mountainous waves, an encounter with a
malodorous slave ship, the captain's wife's pulse-racingly brief
wardrobe, several hordes of pirates, mutiny, the ship's cook's fondness
for curry - to name but a few. All the Tea in China is a swaggering,
rip-snorting, buckler-swashing tale about one of the men who - for a
reasonable fee - made Britain great. "For those who have learnt to
relish his elegant, nasty thrillers, Bonfiglioli is a name hard to
forget. This farrago represents a change from the thrillers - a good
clean salt-water yarn for the decadent". (Irish Press). "Shows his
customary inventive comedy and zest for language". (Sunday Times).
"Bonfiglioli deserves better than cult status". (Independent). Kyril
Bonfiglioli was born on the south coast of England in 1928 of an English
mother and Italo-Slovene father. After studying at Oxford and five
years in the army, he took up a career as an art dealer, like his
eccentric creation Charlie Mortdecai. He lived in Oxford, Lancashire,
Ireland and Jersey, where he died in 1985. He wrote four Charlie
Mortdecai novels, and a fifth historical Mortdecai novel (about a
distinguished ancestor).