Gweilo
Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
by Martin Booth
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appears in About Hong Kong, Travel, and Nonfiction.
Martin Booth died in February 2004, shortly after finishing the book that would be his epitaph this wonderfully remembered, beautifully told memoir of a childhood lived to the full in a farflung outpost of the British Empire...An inquisitive sevenyearold, Martin Booth found himself with the whole of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was po...
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appears in About Hong Kong, Travel, and Nonfiction.
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