Author Talk: Jacquie Pham

Join us for a discussion with writer Jacquie Pham as she discusses her new historical murder mystery, Those Opulent Days.

About the Book

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 the massive economic differences that catapult the wealthy into the stratosphere while the poor starve on the streets.

About the Author

Jacquie Pham is a Vietnamese-Australian writer of adult fiction. Growing up in Vietnam during the New Korean wave around 2007, Jacquie started writing short stories about Korean boy bands. After moving to Australia to attend the University of Sydney, she decided to pursue a career as an author.

About the event

Concord Library
Monday, 24 February
6:00pm: Light refreshments
6:20pm-7:20pm: Author talk