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Diamond Hill
Totally unputdownable and evocative literary fiction
Taschenbuch von Kit Fan
Sprache: Englisch

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'Do you know what it was like here? You wouldn't believe the glamour. But the Hollywood of the Orient will soon be gone altogether'

1987, Hong Kong. Trying to outrun his demons, a young man called Buddha returns to the bustling place of his birth and moves into a small Buddhist nunnery in the crumbling neighbourhood of Diamond Hill. Even as he begins to care for the fiery Iron Nun who guards the place she loves and a faded film actress who calls herself Audrey Hepburn, this pocket of the old city is vanishing in front of his eyes.

But no one arrives in Diamond Hill by accident, and Buddha's ties to this place run deeper than he is willing to admit. Can he make peace with his past and survive in this disappearing city?

'Gripping and highly accomplished... A thoroughly enjoyable and profound exploration of powerlessness, identity and the evolution of a city' Guardian

'Fan is an exuberant chronicler of a lost time and place... It's a timely consideration of Hong Kong's recent past' The Times

'A textured, unsettled portrait of a territory facing a decisive ending... An elegy to that vanished vanishing world' The Wall Street Journal

'Do you know what it was like here? You wouldn't believe the glamour. But the Hollywood of the Orient will soon be gone altogether'

1987, Hong Kong. Trying to outrun his demons, a young man called Buddha returns to the bustling place of his birth and moves into a small Buddhist nunnery in the crumbling neighbourhood of Diamond Hill. Even as he begins to care for the fiery Iron Nun who guards the place she loves and a faded film actress who calls herself Audrey Hepburn, this pocket of the old city is vanishing in front of his eyes.

But no one arrives in Diamond Hill by accident, and Buddha's ties to this place run deeper than he is willing to admit. Can he make peace with his past and survive in this disappearing city?

'Gripping and highly accomplished... A thoroughly enjoyable and profound exploration of powerlessness, identity and the evolution of a city' Guardian

'Fan is an exuberant chronicler of a lost time and place... It's a timely consideration of Hong Kong's recent past' The Times

'A textured, unsettled portrait of a territory facing a decisive ending... An elegy to that vanished vanishing world' The Wall Street Journal

Über den Autor
Kit Fan is a novelist, poet and critic. He was born in Hong Kong and moved to the UK at the age of 21. His second poetry collection, As Slow As Possible was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and one of the Irish Times Books of the Year. He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and a winner of the Northern Writers Award, Times Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize, inaugural HKU International Poetry Prize and POETRY's Editors Prize for Reviewing. Diamond Hill is his debut novel.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 352
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780349701684
ISBN-10: 0349701687
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fan, Kit
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 194 x 122 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Kit Fan
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.05.2022
Gewicht: 0,242 kg
preigu-id: 121925146
Über den Autor
Kit Fan is a novelist, poet and critic. He was born in Hong Kong and moved to the UK at the age of 21. His second poetry collection, As Slow As Possible was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and one of the Irish Times Books of the Year. He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and a winner of the Northern Writers Award, Times Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize, inaugural HKU International Poetry Prize and POETRY's Editors Prize for Reviewing. Diamond Hill is his debut novel.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 352
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780349701684
ISBN-10: 0349701687
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fan, Kit
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 194 x 122 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Kit Fan
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.05.2022
Gewicht: 0,242 kg
preigu-id: 121925146
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