TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fan,Kit
TI  - DIAMOND HILL
SN  - 9780349701684
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Dialogue Books
KW  - Hong Kong (China)
KW  - History
KW  - Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997
KW  - Fiction.
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - It is 1987 and three years since Britain signed the Joint 
       Declaration agreeing to hand over its last colony, Hong 
       Kong, to China in 1997. With that declaration comes the 
       promise that the city will remain unchanged for fifty 
       years. But upheaval is already happening in Diamond Hill. 
       Once the 'Hollywood of the Orient,' it is now a shanty 
       town and an eyesore right in the middle of a glitzy 
       financial hub. Buddha, a recovering heroin addict, returns
       home to find the shabby neighborhood being bulldozed to 
       make room for gleaming towers. Buddhist nuns, drug gangs, 
       property developers, the government and foreign powers 
       each have itchy palms, and all want a piece of Diamond 
       Hill.
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