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_beng
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_erda
082 0 4 _a823.92
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_bFAN
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100 1 _aFan, Kit,
_eauthor.
245 0 0 _aDIAMOND HILL /
_cKIT FAN.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bDialogue Books,
_c2021
300 _a342 pages ;
_c20 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
520 _aIt 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.
651 0 _aHong Kong (China)
_xHistory
_yTransfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997
_vFiction.
655 7 _aHistorical fiction.
_2lcgft
942 _2ddc
_cB
999 _c193844
_d193844