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Susan Dawson, March 30, 2008

I first read this novel in an Advanced Reader's Edition from HarperCollins First Look Program, and although I often send my uncorrected proof copies from HarperCollins out into the world via BookCrossing.com, I have kept this debut novel because it is truly a wonderful book, a historical romance set in the late sixteenth century in a location about which I knew very little.

Although my paperback copy is only 227 pages long, Jeffrey Hanover has in The Jewel Trader of Pegu painted a pictutre of a land and an occupation that I had thought little about. Inspiration for the novel came from just a single sentence discovered in Vietnam in a book about Southeast Asian history.

Through the correspondence to his homeland far away Abraham, the young jewel trader, swept me into a fascinating world.

The blending of two cultures is historically accurate, and the map depicting Pegu and the shorelines of the East Indies at the front of the book increased my understanding of the world in which Abraham and his wife Mya lived.

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