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Kowloon Tong: A Novel of Hong Kong by Paul Theroux - Hardcover
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Custom Bundle
- No
- Type
- Hardcover
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- ISBN
- 9780395860298
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0395860296
ISBN-13
9780395860298
eBay Product ID (ePID)
184282
Product Key Features
Book Title
Kowloon Tong : a Novel of Hong Kong
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
3.2 in
Item Width
2.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
96-029717
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Synopsis
For Neville "Bunt" Mullard and his mother, Betty, Hong Kong is part of Britain - one of the pleasanter parts; it is also cozy, monotonous, profitable, and homely. It is big breakfasts and high tea and bad weather, the race meetings at Happy Valley, the roast beef at Fatty's Chophouse and, for Bunt, the "blue hotels" of Kowloon Tong, where he eats his packed lunches and sometimes rents a room by the hour with a girl. Now, ninety-nine years of colonial rule is about to end, and the British government is about to hand over Hong Kong to China. Betty and Bunt can see China from their parlor, but they have never been there. They detest Chinese food. "The Chinese take-away," as they call the hand-over, does not particularly concern them. When Bunt first meets Mr. Hung, who is a well-spoken gentleman from the Chinese mainland, he pays him little heed. And when Mr. Hung offers the Mullards a handsome sum for their family business - a fifty-year-old textile factory, Imperial Stitching, that was
LC Classification Number
PS3570.H4K68 1997
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- h***c (5)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGreat condition, thanks!
- i***e (792)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseAll good
- f***s (483)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseLove it! Fast delivery