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6 de jul. de 1998 · The accomplished Theroux is always a delight to read, but the plot of his new novel, like life in today's Hong Kong, feels improvised and rushed to make a deadline. Download and read the ebook version of Kowloon Tong by Paul Theroux on Apple Books. In this “moody thriller,” a family business is targeted for takeover as control.
Kowloon Tong Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), $23 (243pp) ISBN 978-0-395-86029-8. ... Theroux has previously played with the identity of a novel's protagonist ...
Kowloon Tong : a novel by Theroux, Paul. Publication date 1998 Topics Sale of business enterprises -- China -- Hong Kong -- Fiction, Businessmen -- China -- Hong Kong -- Fiction, Businessmen, Sale of business enterprises, Hong Kong (China) -- History -- Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997 -- Fiction, China -- Hong Kong
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Kowloon Tong ( Chinese: 九龍塘) is an area of Hong Kong located in Kowloon. The majority of the area is in the Kowloon City District. [1] Its exact location is south of the Lion Rock, north of Boundary Street, east of the East Rail line and west of Grampian Road. [2] It is one of the most expensive residential districts in Hong Kong.
Read 136 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. When Mr Hung offers Bunt a handsome sum for the family business, he refuses him immediatel…
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.
