In this “moody thriller,” a family business is targeted for
takeover as control of Hong Kong shifts from the British to the
Chinese (The New York Times). Ninety-nine years of colonial rule
are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China.
Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, have lived here for years, mostly
keeping apart from their foreign surroundings, except for some
indulgence in the local food, or in Bunt’s case, the local girls.
The handover is not a concern for them—until the mysterious Mr. Hung
from the mainland offers them a large sum for their family business.
They refuse. But they fail to realize that Mr. Hung is unlike the
other Chinese people they’ve known: he will accept no refusals. When
a young female employee whom Bunt has been dating vanishes, he is
forced to make important decisions for the first time in his
life—but his good intentions are pitted against the will of Mr.
Hung, and the threat of the ultimate betrayal. “A compact,
provocative gem of a novel” (The Boston Globe), from an
award-winning author acclaimed for both his fiction and his travel
memoirs—including Deep South, The Great Railway Bazaar, and The
Mosquito Coast—Kowloon Tong was praised by Bette Bao Lord in The
Washington Post Book World as “a taut, illuminating story that
transcends its timely subject.”
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ISBN
9780547525884
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Mariner Books / Open Road Integrated Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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