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Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood

Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood

Booth, Martin

Paperback

Biographies GeneralChinaChinese History

Publisher Price: $24.00

ISBN10: 0312426267
ISBN13: 9780312426262
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: Nov 14 2006
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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.

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