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Diamond Hill: Totally unputdownable and evocative literary fiction - Softcover

Fan, Kit

 
9780349701684: Diamond Hill: Totally unputdownable and evocative literary fiction
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0349701687 ISBN 13: 9780349701684
Verlag: Dialogue Books, 2022

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'A vivid, powerful portrait of a vanishing world' - David Nicholls, author of One Day & Sweet Sorrow

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Kit Fan is a novelist, poet and critic. He was born in Hong Kong and moved to the UK at the age of 21. His second poetry collection, As Slow As Possible was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and one of the Irish Times Books of the Year. He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and a winner of the Northern Writers Award, Times Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize, inaugural HKU International Poetry Prize and POETRY's Editors Prize for Reviewing. Diamond Hill is his debut novel.

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'Do you know what it was like here? You wouldn't believe the glamour. But the Hollywood of the Orient will soon be gone altogether'

1987, Hong Kong. Trying to outrun his demons, a young man called Buddha returns to the bustling place of his birth and moves into a small Buddhist nunnery in the crumbling neighbourhood of Diamond Hill. Even as he begins to care for the fiery Iron Nun who guards the place she loves and a faded film actress who calls herself Audrey Hepburn, this pocket of the old city is vanishing in front of his eyes.

But no one arrives in Diamond Hill by accident, and Buddha's ties to this place run deeper than he is willing to admit. Can he make peace with his past and survive in this disappearing city?

'Gripping and highly accomplished... A thoroughly enjoyable and profound exploration of powerlessness, identity and the evolution of a city' Guardian

'Fan is an exuberant chronicler of a lost time and place... It's a timely consideration of Hong Kong's recent past' The Times

'A textured, unsettled portrait of a territory facing a decisive ending... An elegy to that vanished vanishing world' The Wall Street Journal

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Verlag
Dialogue Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0349701687
ISBN 13 
9780349701684
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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