Diamond Hill
by Kit Fan
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"I enjoyed Diamond Hill very much. It's fantastically evocative of a time and place, full of vivid images but never at the expense of story. A hugely impressive first novel."—DAVID NICHOLLS, bestselling author of One DayIt is 1987 and three years since Britain signed the Joint Declaration agreeing to hand over its last colony, Hong Kong, to China in 1997. With that declaration comes the promise that the city will remain unchanged for fifty years. But upheaval is already happening in show more Diamond Hill. Once the 'Hollywood of the Orient,' it is now a shanty town and an eyesore right in the middle of a glitzy financial hub. Buddha, a recovering heroin addict, returns home to find the shabby neighborhood being bulldozed to make room for gleaming towers. Buddhist nuns, drug gangs, property developers, the government and foreign powers each have itchy palms, and all want a piece of Diamond Hill. Kit Fan's hard-hitting and exhilarating debut is a requiem for a disappearing city, as well as a meditation on powerlessness, religion, memory, and displacement.
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I am not sure how to describe what this book is about other than to say so characters want to forget or undo their past others are defining their future.
The book takes place in Hong Kong in 1987. The British have just sign the promise to turn Hing Kong back over to China in 1997.
There is a recovering heroin addict who lives at a nunnery and is the only male there. The iron Nun who has a shady past a young nun named quartz who just wants to die
Boss a female teenage drug dealer
Audrey Hepburn her mother who is not grounded at all in reality. And a bunch of other crazy people.
The writing is excellent but the story, what little there is well it is way out there.
The book takes place in Hong Kong in 1987. The British have just sign the promise to turn Hing Kong back over to China in 1997.
There is a recovering heroin addict who lives at a nunnery and is the only male there. The iron Nun who has a shady past a young nun named quartz who just wants to die
Boss a female teenage drug dealer
Audrey Hepburn her mother who is not grounded at all in reality. And a bunch of other crazy people.
The writing is excellent but the story, what little there is well it is way out there.
loved it!
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The Guardian Book of the Day (2021-05-21)
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