Road

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Set in 1950s Hong Kong, The Road paints an evocative picture of comfortable colonial life, while at the same time presenting the local people with the shrewd understanding that the author had acquired as District Offi cer in rural Hong Kong.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-07-01
Mått135 x 194 x 16 mm
Vikt328 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagHong Kong University Press
ISBN9789622090781

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In this novel Austin Coates offers a unique insight into the small world of Britain's Chinese colony of Hong Kong in the 1950s. The Road shows us the brittle comedy of colonial manners; but at the same time the drama of the construction of a road, with its clash between ambitious modernization and entrenched tradition, emerges as something of an allegory of the building of a modern Hong Kong. Coates was an astute observer of what happens when cultures misunderstand each other, but also of what happens when they understand each other only too well. -- Douglas Kerr, Professor of English, University of Hong Kong