by SimonBarnes (Author)
Memories of expat life in pre-handover Hong Kong. Lyrical, wry, amusing, deceptively gentle, Simon Barnes's second novel packs a powerful punch after it has crept up on the reader with the narrator's fond reminiscences of expat life in pre-handover Hong Kong. The hazy and often hilarious memories of work and play in the heartstopping beauty and pulse-racing commercialism of the colony is suddenly flooded by darker memories of tragedy and loss, although Barnes, the most optimistic and delightful of authors, pulls the reader through to a warmly satisfying conclusion.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: Media tie-in
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 06 Apr 1999
ISBN 10: 0006511953
ISBN 13: 9780006511953