Dimensions
141 x 222 x 35mm
Percival Chen is a successful Chinese rice importer in Vietnam. He is also the headmaster of the most respected English School in Saigon - and a compulsive gambler. Proud of his Chinese inheritance, he instils the same sense of pride in his son Dai Jai. But when Dai Jai is arrested and tortured, after joining protests about Vietnamese discrimination against the Chinese population, Percival is determined to secure Dai Jai's release at any cost.
Percival successfully frees his son from the authorities, only to confront a darker threat in the form of Dai Jai's Vietnamese conscription papers. He determines to send his son to China to escape the draft, not realising that he is sending him to an even harder fate at the hands of the Cultural Revolution. As war in Vietnam intensifies, Percival prepares to flee to America, but first he must get his son out of Communist China. He is ready to risk everything in order to do so. It is his final wager and one that could lose him everything.
This is a sweeping generational saga that reveals the true human cost of a father's love for his son. It is a story of one man's tragic misunderstandings, and his acts of greatest courage.
