Kowloon Tong - Paul Theroux
Very readable novel, set in Hong Kong in the run up to the Handover in 1997. I've read a lot of Paul Theroux's travelogues, but this is the first novel of his I've tried. It proved to be very readable, although I've no idea how true to life it was.
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