The Kowloon English Club
Chris Maden reviews a gentle comedy set in the run-up to Hong Kong’s 1997 ‘handover’ to China…
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Archive for: HKRB Fiction
Many People Die Like You
Stuart Walton reviews the new translation of Lina Wolff’s debut short story collection.
Theft
Stuart Walton reviews Luke Brown’s stylistically accomplished new novel.
Coming to our Senses
Emily Chow-Quesada reviews The Hong Kong Writers Circle annual anthology of short stories and poems about the city.
The Last Boat Out of Shanghai
Matthew Wu reviews a novel crafted from the personal stories of those who fled mainland China as a consequence of WWII and the Chinese Civil War.
I Have Become the Tide
As the Bharatiya Janata Party looks set to take a general election majority in an India increasingly hostile to minorities, Ragini Mohite reviews Githa Hariharan’s important novel on caste inequality and Dalit experience
Night of Happiness
Ragini Mohite reviews Tabish Khair’s latest novel, a sensitive acknowledgement of the indignities faced by minority communities and individuals in contemporary India.
Tharlo: Short Story and Film Script
Kristof Van den Troost reviews a Tibetan tale of the encounter between traditionalism and modernity.
