by Martin Booth · Bantam Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780553816723
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«Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood» is Martin Booth's childhood memoir, published by Bantam Press in paperback (269 pages, in English).
The author recalls his childhood in colonial Hong Kong in the 1950s: at age seven, he explores corners forbidden to a gweilo, the blond foreigner, and discovers Chinese culture amid festivals, unusual foods, and prohibited places. The joy of that world clashes with the unhappiness of his parents, a tolerant mother and an intolerant father.
For readers of personal memoirs and of Hong Kong's colonial history and cross-cultural relations.
Martin Booth was an English novelist and poet. He also worked as a teacher and screenwriter, and was the founder of the Sceptre Press.
