Name: Golden Boy

Full name: Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood

Author: Martin Booth
Year: 2004
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Non Fiction, Memoirs, Travel
Cultures: China, Asia

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ISBNs:
9780312426262
9780312348175
0312426267
0312348177
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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