Fragrant Harbour

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She may indeed be an accurate representation of a type, but accurately described characters don't necessarily pull their weight in a novel. As today's Hong Kong faces yet more uncertainty and change, these films highlight a very different time on the crowded island where East met West.

He has written four novels, The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips, Fragrant Harbour and Capital, and two works of non-fiction: Family Romance, a memoir; and Whoops!Against this backdrop, Stewart's life, and particularly his relationship with Maria, a Chinese nun he first meets as he is travelling out from England in 1935, unfolds. There is "a limpidity of the verbal surface and a seeming flatness which in fact conceals great intensities of feeling". She arranged his attendance at Maidenhead Technical Institute, after which Stanley attended the Slade School of Fine Art, London.

Der Leser erlebt den zweiten Weltkrieg, den Aufstieg der Stadt zur Handelsmetropole, den Einzug der Triaden und anderer krimineller Vereinigungen. To be fair, this kind of author knowledge, masquerading as scene-setting, is only present in the first part of the novel.That said, I still ate up the book in a matter of days, and found myself caught completely off-guard by some unexpected plot surprises. Aboard ship, he becomes the pawn in a wager between a bluff businessman and a Chinese missionary nun, who bets she can teach him Cantonese on the six-week voyage out.