- China, Fiction, Textile factories, Detective and mystery stories
For Neville "Bunt" Mullard and his mother, Betty, Hong Kong is part of Britain - one of the pleasanter parts; it is also cozy, monotonous, profitable, and homely. Now ninety-nine years of colonial rule are about to end, and the British government is about to hand over Hong Kong to China.
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- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Paul Theroux
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 250
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton, Chivers Press, Inostranka
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9785933810896
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“SOME DAYS Hong Kong seemed no different from the London suburb she had lived in before the war.”
**Paul Edward Theroux** is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar (1975).
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