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Those Opulent Days: Jacquie Pham in-conversation with Shaina Veronica

Thu, 20 Feb

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Better Read Than Dead

Join us with Jacquie Pham to celebrate the release of Those Opulent Days! Jacquie will be in-conversation with Shaina Veronica.

Those Opulent Days: Jacquie Pham in-conversation with Shaina Veronica
Those Opulent Days: Jacquie Pham in-conversation with Shaina Veronica

Time & Location

20 Feb 2025, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia

Guests

About The Event

One will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agonise. And one will die.


Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men running their families’ formidable businesses, they make up Saigon’s most powerful group of friends in 1928 Vietnam’s elite society.


Until one of them is murdered.


In a lavish mansion on a hill in Dalat, all four men have gathered for an evening of indulgence, but one of them won’t survive the night. Toggling between this fatal night and the six days leading up to it, told from the perspectives of the four men, their mothers, their servants, and their lovers, an intricate web of terror, loyalty, and well-kept secrets begins to unravel.


As the story creeps closer to the murder, and as each character becomes a suspect, the true villain begins to emerge: colonialism, the French occupation of Vietnam, and…


Tickets

  • Event Ticket

    A$5.00
  • Event + Book

    Includes a ticket and copy of Those Opulent Days

    A$40.00

Total

A$0.00

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