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Loading... De wereld van Suzie Wong (1957)by Richard Mason, Hans de Vries (Translator)
Work InformationThe World of Suzie Wong by Richard Mason (1957)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. In the 1950s, a British artist moves into a hotel in the Wanchai district of Hong Kong. The place is inhabited by "bar girls" (Chinese prostitutes) whose customers are mainly sailors from the ships that dock in Hong Kong harbour. Although he befriends all the girls, he becomes particularly interested in Mee-ling Wong who has renamed herself Suzie. Old-fashioned, with some of the prejudices of the times, but written in a very sensitive and moving way. A famous novel of Hong Kong. One of my favourites - read years ago, so I am not quite sure about the decisive points any longer. In any case the book made me want to live about a - well, in my case :-) - restaurant or bar or such. Which I did for some years (and liked it). Read it. It is a good novel place in Hong Kong in the 1950s. no reviews | add a review
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Penguin Books reintroduces the timeless story of the love affair between a British artist and a Chinese prostitute. Robert is t he only resident of the Nam Kok hotel not renting his room by the hour when he meets Suzie at the bar. She becomes his muse and they fall in love. But even in Hong Kong, where many white expatriates have Chinese mistresses, their romance could jeopardize the things they each hold dear. Set in the mid-1950s, The World of Suzie Wong is a beautifully written time capsule of a novel. First published more than fifty years ago, it resonated with readers worldwide, inspiring a film starring William H olden, a ballet, and even a reggae song. Now readers can experience the romance of this groundbreaking story anew. No library descriptions found. |
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Finally, I have come to this novel late. It has been many, many, many years since I first saw the film version, with Nancy Kwan and William Holden. And the images from the film still are fresh in my mind. But so good is Mason's writing in Suzie Wong, that I soon had those images driven from my mind by the very real world of 1950s Hong Kong he creates in the novel's pages. As such, the novel maintains its own vitality and, in the end, somewhat desperate desire to see how Suzie and Robert's lives played out after the final page. ( )