Author: Martin Booth Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, Travel Cultures: China, Asia
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ISBNs: 9780312426262 9780312348175 0312426267 0312348177 |
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At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in 1952. This is his memoir of that youth, a time when he had access to corners of the colony normally closed to a gweilo, a "pale fellow" like him. From the plink plonk man with his dancing monkey to Nagasaki Jim, and from a drunken child molester to the Queen of Kowloon (the crazed tramp who may have been a Romanov), Martin saw it all--but his memoir illustrates a deeper challenge in his warring parents. This is an intimate and powerful memory of a place and time now past.
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