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A Memoir of a Hong Kong Childhood

Golden Boy: A Memoir of a Hong Kong Childhood by Martin Booth

January 13, 2020 by Fiat.Luxury Leave a Comment

I can’t remember why I picked this book up, but it was a lovely read.  This is a charming book about the childhood memories of Martin Booth, who, in the early 1950s, moved with his parents to Hong Kong, where his father was posted with the British Navy.  With an open-minded mother and “lucky” golden hair, 7-year-old Martin explored Hong Kong, including the parts of the city usually walled off to “gweilo” (foreigners.)  The book includes lovely and loving descriptions of the city and the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: golden boy, gweilo, Hong Kong, martin booth

Fiat.Luxury's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: golden boy, gweilo, Hong Kong, martin booth ·
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The god who controls time has seen fit to play fool with me.

The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth

September 16, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This book is from 1998 and it was nominated for the Booker Prize. In it, we meet a former British citizen, now more or less repatriated as a Soviet/Russian citizen. We find him at the opening of the novel turning 80 and his much younger Russian wife is fondly preparing him for the small celebration of his life. From here we are taken back some fifty or so year to his arrest at the hands of the KGB in Leipzig as a suspected spy, to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: martin booth, the industry of souls

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:516 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: martin booth, the industry of souls ·
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