My City: A Hong Kong Story (Renditions Paperbacks)

Xi Xi

ISBN 10: 9627255114 / ISBN 13: 9789627255116

Published by Renditions Press, 1993

About this Item

Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

Seller Inventory # L-BJO00395-MIX-20230809-G

Bibliographic Details

• Title: My City: A Hong Kong Story (Renditions Paperbacks)
• Publisher: Renditions Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9627255114
• ISBN 13: 9789627255116
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Hong Kong in the 1970s- a time of rapid economic growth, and more significantly, of growth in self-confidence and the forging of a national identity. In a disarming style uniquely her own, Xi Xi weaves a deceptively child-like narrative against a background of the political and social problems of this complex society. Seldom has a writer captured the spirit of a generation with such apparent simplicity and ease.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

From Chapter 1-I nod my head to them. Well, except for nodding my head, what can I say? This old and fascinating mansion with its seventeen doors -they just said: You can live here.

By "you" they mean my mother Grace, My sister Braids and me, Fruits. As for them, two are my father's younger sisters, while the other one is his older sister. Yesterday, early in the morning, I thought hard for a full two hours before I recalled having met them twice before. Once I recalled that they looked like water lilies, that is to say brilliant. The other time, I recalled they looked like lotus roots, their faces gray and muddy.