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

Author: Martin Booth Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, Travel Cultures: China, Asia Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing 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. Similar books: Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman Beyond the Sky and the Earth by Jamie Zeppa A Fortune-Teller Told Me by Tiziano Terzani Hitching Rides with Buddha by Will Ferguson Kosher Chinese by Michael Levy Hearing Birds Fly by Louisa Waugh I Grew My Boobs in China by Savannah Grace Sideways on a Scooter by Miranda Kennedy Around the Bloc by Stephanie Elizondo Griest Buttertea at Sunrise by Britta Das My Life in France by Julia Child Little Princes by Conor Grennan Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin Almost French by Sarah Turnbull A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter