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Gweilo: Memories Of A Hong Kong Childhood by Martin Booth (Paperback Book)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Topic
- Memoir
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United Kingdom
- Item Length
- 19.7 cm
- ISBN
- 9780553816723
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
- Item Height
- 198mm
- Publisher
- TransWorld LTD
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Item Width
- 127mm
- Item Weight
- 262g
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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Evocative, funny and full of life - a beautifully written and observed childhood memoir of growing up in colonial Hong Kong shortly after World War 2. Martin Booth died in February 2004, shortly after finishing the book that would be his epitaph - this wonderfully remembered, beautifully told memoir of a childhood lived to the full in a far-flung outpost of the British Empire... An inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the whole of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in the early 1950s. Unrestricted by parental control and blessed with bright blond hair that signified good luck to the Chinese, he had free access to hidden corners of the colony normally closed to a Gweilo, a 'pale fellow' like him. Befriending rickshaw coolies and local stallholders, he learnt Cantonese, sampled delicacies such as boiled water beetles and one-hundred-year-old eggs, and participated in colourful festivals. He even entered the forbidden Kowloon Walled City, wandered into the secret lair of the Triads and visited an opium den. Along the way he encountered a colourful array of people, from the plink plonk man with his dancing monkey to Nagasaki Jim, a drunken child molester, and the Queen of Kowloon, the crazed tramp who may have been a member of the Romanov family. Shadowed by the unhappiness of his warring parents, a broad-minded mother who, like her son, was keen to embrace all things Chinese, and a bigoted father who was enraged by his family's interest in 'going native', Martin Booth's compelling memoir is a journey into Chinese culture and an extinct colonial way of life that glows with infectious curiosity and humour.
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Publisher
TransWorld LTD
ISBN-13
9780553816723
eBay Product ID (ePID)
87215801
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
127mm
Item Weight
262g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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