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28 de may. de 1997 · Paul Theroux. 3.21. 1,264 ratings136 reviews. Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China. For Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, it doesn't concern them - until the mysterious Mr. Hung from the mainland offers them a large sum for their family business.
2 de jun. de 1997 · shop now. amazon bookshop. The prolific author of, most recently, My Other Life (1996), and many other works set in faraway places, returns to one of his favorite locales—the Far East—in this tense novel about disenchanted Caucasians living in Hong Kong on the eve of that former colony's separation from Britain and its ...
9 de jul. de 2022 · As seems Theroux's knack, Kowloon Tong is yet another novel in which the writer gets deep inside his main character's head through actions more than words. A real human created in the process, the reader feels a spectrum of emotions for Mullard—pity, frustration, disgust, and ultimately understanding.
0-395-86029-6. Kowloon Tong (1997) is a novel by Paul Theroux about Neville "Bunt" Mullard, an English mummy's boy born and raised in Hong Kong. The story is set in the days leading up to the handover to China of Hong Kong from the British.
8 de jun. de 1997 · Bunt drives off in his father's 1958 Rover to Imperial Stitching, the family factory in Kowloon Tong, which the Mullards own with a Chinese-hating Chinese entrepreneur named Mr. Chuck. Typically, it will take a Chinese mainlander to let Bunt know that ''Kowloon Tong'' is Cantonese for ''Nine Dragons' Pond.'' ''Everything means something,'' Bunt sniffs, with the dragon's breath already on him.
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Kowloon Tong by Paul Theroux christine 1997 / Asia / Far East / Fiction / Hong Kong 1 October 2012 18 May 2020 The book had sat on my shelf, puzzingly unread, for 13 years.
