The Resource Diamond hill, Kit Fan
Diamond hill, Kit Fan
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The item Diamond hill, Kit Fan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Diamond hill, Kit Fan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Set in the last shanty town of Hong Kong before the fraught 1997 handover from Britain to China, Diamond Hill follows the return of a recovering heroin addict, Buddha, as he tries to salvage what's left from a place he hoped to forget. Diamond Hill was once the 'Hollywood of the Orient', butisnow an eyesore in the middle of a glitzy financial hub. Buddhist nuns, drug gangs, property developers, the government and foreign powersare all vying for power, each wanting to stake their claim on the land. Buddha finds himself crossing swords with the Iron Nun, fighting for her nunnery; a disturbed novice, Quartz, who is fleeing her past; a faded film actress called Audrey Hepburn; and Boss, a teenage gang leader with a big mouth and even bigger plans, plotting to escape what she calls 'the death of Hong Kong'. Kit Fan's hard-hitting and exhilarating debut is a requiem for a disappearing city, and a meditation on powerlessness, religion, colonialism and displacement. It explores the price of forgetting and how the present is ultimately always entangled in the past
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 342 pages
- Isbn
- 9780349701707
- Label
- Diamond hill
- Title
- Diamond hill
- Statement of responsibility
- Kit Fan
- Subject
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- Ex-drug addicts -- China | Hong Kong -- Fiction
- Gang members -- Fiction
- Hong Kong (China) -- Fiction
- Hong Kong (China) -- History -- Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997 -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Actresses -- Fiction
- Recovering addicts -- Fiction
- Slums -- China | Hong Kong -- Fiction
- Squatter settlements -- Fiction
- UK & IRL fiction
- Nuns -- Fiction
- Displacement (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Set in the last shanty town of Hong Kong before the fraught 1997 handover from Britain to China, Diamond Hill follows the return of a recovering heroin addict, Buddha, as he tries to salvage what's left from a place he hoped to forget. Diamond Hill was once the 'Hollywood of the Orient', butisnow an eyesore in the middle of a glitzy financial hub. Buddhist nuns, drug gangs, property developers, the government and foreign powersare all vying for power, each wanting to stake their claim on the land. Buddha finds himself crossing swords with the Iron Nun, fighting for her nunnery; a disturbed novice, Quartz, who is fleeing her past; a faded film actress called Audrey Hepburn; and Boss, a teenage gang leader with a big mouth and even bigger plans, plotting to escape what she calls 'the death of Hong Kong'. Kit Fan's hard-hitting and exhilarating debut is a requiem for a disappearing city, and a meditation on powerlessness, religion, colonialism and displacement. It explores the price of forgetting and how the present is ultimately always entangled in the past
- Cataloging source
- UKMGB
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Fan, Kit
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Slums
- Ex-drug addicts
- Squatter settlements
- Recovering addicts
- Gang members
- Actresses
- Nuns
- Interpersonal relations
- Displacement (Psychology)
- Hong Kong (China)
- Hong Kong (China)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Diamond hill, Kit Fan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000068813435
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 342 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780349701707
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1241252793
- Label
- Diamond hill, Kit Fan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000068813435
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 342 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780349701707
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1241252793
Subject
- Ex-drug addicts -- China | Hong Kong -- Fiction
- Gang members -- Fiction
- Hong Kong (China) -- Fiction
- Hong Kong (China) -- History -- Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997 -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Actresses -- Fiction
- Recovering addicts -- Fiction
- Slums -- China | Hong Kong -- Fiction
- Squatter settlements -- Fiction
- UK & IRL fiction
- Nuns -- Fiction
- Displacement (Psychology) -- Fiction
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