Author : Fiona Hawthorne
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,61 MB
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789887963936
Imagine living in a high-rise mini-city that people built with their own hands. This city took up only the size of a sports stadium, but it was home to sixty thousand people! What would it be like to live in the most tightly packed place on Earth? Fiona wanted to find out, so she went there to paint, draw and meet the people of the amazing Kowloon Walled City. There was nowhere else in the world like it. The extraordinary things she discovered are inside this book...
Author : Ryan Graudin
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0316405043
730. That's how many days I've been trapped.18. That's how many days I have left to find a way out. DAI, trying to escape a haunting past, traffics drugs for the most ruthless kingpin in the Walled City. But in order to find the key to his freedom, he needs help from someone with the power to be invisible.... JIN hides under the radar, afraid the wild street gangs will discover her biggest secret: Jin passes as a boy to stay safe. Still, every chance she gets, she searches for her lost sister.... MEI YEE has been trapped in a brothel for the past two years, dreaming of getting out while watching the girls who try fail one by one. She's about to give up, when one day she sees an unexpected face at her window..... In this innovative and adrenaline-fueled novel, they all come together in a desperate attempt to escape a lawless labyrinth before the clock runs out.
Author : Martin Booth
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312426262
The last work of the internationally known, Booker-shortlisted writer is a memoir of growing up in 1950s Hong Kong.
Author : Gordon Mathews
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226510204
4e de couv.: Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district, is home to a remarkably motley group of people. Traders, laborers, and asylum seekers from all over Asia and Africa live and work there, and even backpacking tourists rent rooms in what is possibly the most globalized spot on the planet. But as Ghetto at the center of the world shows us, the Mansions is a world away from the gleaming headquarters of multinational corporations -instead it epitomizes the way globalization actually works for most of the world's people. Through candid stories that both instruct and enthrall, Gordon Mathews lays bare the building's residents' intricate connections to the international circulation of goods, money, and ideas.
Author : Greg Girard
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Documentary photography
ISBN : 9781873200131
A photographic record of Kowloon Walled City - a city within a city, now demolished and its 35,000 inhabitants rehoused. Containing interviews and commentary, the book tells the city's history, and how the self-sufficient community lived and worked in so little space in such apparent harmony.
Author : Alan Bellows
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0761152253
Contains over ninety weird-but-true stories reported on DamnInteresting.com, telling of alien hand syndrome, Nazi-thwarting Norwegians, the skyhook, and other oddities.
Author : Ann Leckie
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316246638
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards: This record-breaking novel follows a warship trapped in a human body on a quest for revenge. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey. "There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could." -- John Scalzi On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren -- a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance.
Author : Jackie Pullinger
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1444717979
Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished, as did prostitution and pornography, extortion and fear. When Jackie Pullinger set sail from England in 1966 she had no idea that God was calling her to the Walled City. Yet, as she spoke of Jesus Christ, brutal Triad gangsters were converted, prostitutes quit, and Jackie discovered a new treatment for drug addiction: baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547746504
A taut, tense, darkly suspenseful novel about a man who flees to Africa after his marriage falls apart, only to be caught up in a precarious situation in a seemingly benign village.
Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101528753
In the second part of John le Carré's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension. As the fall of Saigon looms, master spy George Smiley must outmaneuver his Soviet counterpart on a battlefield that neither can afford to lose. The mole has been eliminated, but the damage wrought has brought the British Secret Service to its knees. Given the charge of the gravely compromised Circus, George Smiley embarks on a campaign to uncover what Moscow Centre most wants to hide. When the trail goes cold at a Hong Kong gold seam, Smiley dispatches Gerald Westerby to shake the money tree. A part-time operative with cover as a philandering journalist, Westerby insinuates himself into a war-torn world where allegiances—and lives—are bought and sold. Brilliantly plotted and morally complex, The Honourable Schoolboy is the second installment of John le Carré's renowned Karla triology and a riveting portrayal of postcolonial espionage. With an introduction by the author.
