A period during which there were vast changes in the area from the British rule through the Japanese war then the Chinese refugees escaping the communist rule and finally the hand over to the Chinese. But we also know that the city attracts the rich and powerful, and offers a lifestyle many can only dream about. All enjoyed his ruthless life the more keenly because the author was the blameless food correspondent of a national newspaper. The story is really three stories, although the lives of the main characters are intertwined so that it reads as one giant narrative spanning 70 years and three generations.

If you fail to comply with this obligation, we may have a right of action against you for compensation. Long and almost entirely expository, Matthew's section is much less interesting that Tom's, or for that matter Dawn's.He provides a strong sense of history too, covering the city’s physical development from the mid-1930s to the Chinese handover in 1997.

The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the horrors of the Japanese occupation during World War II; and the post-war boom and transformation of Hong Kong all surface in this epic novel. Dawn Stone is an English journalist who becomes the public face of money and power and big business. The postwar story is of Hong Kong's enormous growth, the means by which businessmen converted millions into billions, and the activities of the Triads, the local mafia, among whom a young protégé of Stewart and the nun grows very prominent. Eine junge Journalistin, die Mitter 90ger Jahre in die Stadt kommt und dort Karriere macht, ein junger Engländer der 1930 vom Reisefieber gepackt wird und in Hong Kong zum Hotelier wird, eine chinesische Nonne die aus Frankreich zurück nach China kommt und noch einige andere Akteure.

It made me really long to go to Hong Kong (or Fragrant Harbour which is its chinese name) and I subsequently did! Keith Vaughan Keith Vaughan was born at Selsey, Sussex (1912) to Eric George Story Vaughan, a civil engineer, and his wife Gladys Regina Marian Mackintosh. John Lanchester's first novel, The Debt to Pleasure, delighted gourmets and others - the former because its principal character is a disciple of Brillat Savarin, devoted to gustatory ecstasy as a good man might be devoted to virtue, the latter just for the jokes. There’s the ‘adult’s’ public house, the place of historical importance, the stations and architecture of an adult’s world. Born in 1890, her family also had business interests in newspaper publishing, and she grew up in the family mansion Toorak House where, subsequent to her training in art, she would set up her studio.

With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics. The man fares better but offers few opportunities for the sort of writing we know this author is good at. Fragrance’ might stem from the fact that the harbour waters are sweetened by fresh water from the Pearl River; alternatively, it may refer to the sweet smell of incense being sold from the shore but carried by the wind across the harbour waters.Key political events — the Japanese capture of Hong Kong in 1941, the Chinese civil war and Mao’s cultural revolution, the 1967 riots in which pro-communists demonstrated against British rule, the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing — are dotted throughout, giving the story a truly epic feel. It is permeated by the history and myths of the region, in which the author and his characters are fluent. His first exhibition was at the Lefevre Gallery, in 1937, but he exhibited at the Royal College of Art; the Waddington Galleries, the New Grafton Gallery; the Bohun Gallery; and Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Because I was born there too, to an Anglo-Chinese family that arrived in the Colony in 1936, I can attest that the stories in it ring true.