Diamond Hill: Totally unputdownable and evocative literary fiction - Hardcover

Fan, Kit

 
9780349701707: Diamond Hill: Totally unputdownable and evocative literary fiction
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0349701709 ISBN 13: 9780349701707
Verlag: Dialogue Books, 2021

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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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Set in the last shanty town of Hong Kong before the fraught 1997 handover from Britain to China, Diamond Hill follows the return of a recovering heroin addict, Buddha, as he tries to salvage what's left from a place he hoped to forget.

Diamond Hill was once the 'Hollywood of the Orient', butisnow an eyesore in the middle of a glitzy financial hub. Buddhist nuns, drug gangs, property developers, the government and foreign powersare all vying for power, each wanting to stake their claim on the land.

Buddha finds himself crossing swords with the Iron Nun, fighting for her nunnery; a disturbed novice, Quartz, who is fleeing her past; a faded film actress called Audrey Hepburn; and Boss, a teenage gang leader with a big mouth and even bigger plans, plotting to escape what she calls 'the death of Hong Kong'.

Kit Fan's hard-hitting and exhilarating debut is a requiem for a disappearing city, and a meditation on powerlessness, religion, colonialism and displacement. It explores the price of forgetting and how the present is ultimately always entangled in the past.

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Verlag
Dialogue Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0349701709
ISBN 13 
9780349701707
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Anzahl der Seiten
352
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