num_pages: 256
description: “Fan-Tan is a hugely entertaining, swashbuckling romp, from one of the greatest actors of our time: Marlon Brando. The story of an eccentric early-twentieth-century pirate who sets out on the high seas from the Philippines to Shanghai, Fan-Tan follows the exploits of Anatole ‘Annie’ Doultry, a larger-than-life character that Brando could have easily inhabited himself. When Annie saves the life of a Chinese prisoner in a Hong Kong prison, he’s led to the mysterious and seductive Madame Lai Choi San—one of the most notorious gangsters in Asia—and here the true adventures begin. Years in the making with Brando’s longtime collaborator, screenwriter and director Donald Cammell, Fan-Tan is a rollicking, delectable tale—and the last surprise from an ever-surprising legend,” enthuses the blurb from the trade paperback edition.This novel was completed, posthumously, by David Thompson. In 2004, after both authors were dead, Thompson was assigned by the publisher to edit the typescript — seven complete chapters — and to finish the story according to Donald Cammell’s outline of the eighth and last chapter. Although the story was the work of both Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell, the actual writing was done by Cammell alone, in longhand manuscript.
language: English
title: Fan-Tan
titlecomplete: Fan-Tan
genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 91
publisher: Knopf