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Percival Chen is Headmaster at the most prestigious English school in Saigon, but he is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler, and an incorrigible womanizer.
Giller Prize winner, and internationally acclaimed, bestselling author Vincent Lam presents The Headmaster's Wager, a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam war that is blessed throughout with intriguingly flawed characters who move through a richly drawn historical and physical landscape.
"Lam combines elements of historical fiction, political thriller and domestic drama to present one of the 20th century's defining stories in a whole new way. The Headmaster's Wager is more than just an absorbing read. It's a testament and memorial in fiction to a community that no longer exists." -- The Gazette (Montreal)