Diamond hill

Resource Information

The work Diamond hill represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Diamond hill

Statement of responsibility

Kit Fan

Creator

• Fan, Kit

Author

• Fan, Kit

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

Genre

• 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

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult