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The Road

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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 acqui...
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Price: £22.95
Pages: 288
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Series: Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History
Publication Date: 06 July 2009
Trim Size: 7.60 X 5.10 in
ISBN: 9789622090781
Format: Paperback
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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 i