by Paul Theroux · ABC · tapa dura · ISBN 8000063200647
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«Kowloon Tong» is the novel by Paul Theroux, published by ABC in hardcover.
The action takes place in Hong Kong in the months before the city's handover to China and follows a British owner of a small textile factory and his mother. The relationship between the two, he born and raised in the colony, serves to portray the cultural clash and unease at the social transformation.
2004 edition belonging to the Traveller's Library collection (Asia series, number 28).
For readers of travel writing and fiction set in colonial Hong Kong.
Paul Edward Theroux is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar (1975). Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast, which was adapted for the 1986 movie of the same name and the 2021 television series of the same name.
