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In this "moody thriller," a family business is targeted for takeover as control of Hong Kong shifts from the British to the Chinese (The New York Times).

Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China. Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, have lived here for years, mostly keeping apart from their foreign surroundings, except for some indulgence in the local food, or in Bunt's case, the local girls. The handover is not a concern for themuntil the mysterious Mr. Hung from the mainland offers them a large sum for their family business.

They refuse. But they fail to realize that Mr. Hung is unlike the other Chinese people they've known: he will accept no refusals. When a young female employee whom Bunt has been dating vanishes, he is forced to make important decisions for the first time in his lifebut his good intentions are pitted against the will of Mr. Hung, and the threat of the ultimate betrayal.

"A compact, provocative gem of a novel" (The Boston Globe), from an award-winning author acclaimed for both his fiction and his travel memoirsincluding Deep South, The Great Railway Bazaar, and The Mosquito CoastKowloon Tong was praised by Bette Bao Lord in The Washington Post Book World as "a taut, illuminating story that transcends its timely subject."

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Generi Romanzi e Letterature » Romanzi contemporanei , Gialli Noir e Avventura » Thriller e suspence

Editore Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Formato Ebook con Adobe DRM

Pubblicato 06/07/1998

Lingua Inglese

EAN-13 9780547525884

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