At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in 1952. This is his memoir of that youth, a time when he had access to corners of the colony normally closed to a gweilo, a "pale fellow" like him. From the plink plonk man with his dancing monkey to Nagasaki Jim, and from a drunken child molester to the Queen of Kowloon (the crazed tramp who may have been a Romanov), Martin saw it all--but his memoir illustrates a deeper challenge in his warring parents. This is an intimate and powerful memory of a place and time now past.
| ISBN | 9780312426262 |
| Autor(a) | Booth, Martin |
| Editora | St. Martins Press-3PL |
| Ano de edição | 2006 |
| Páginas | 352 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |