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Title: The WORST novel about Hong Kong
Review: I don't know much about Mr. Lanchester's background, but it's clear that he DID live in Hong Kong and he CANNOT tell a story. There are weighty issues in the book that he simply refuses to face, such as, as far as the readers could tell, the main character has one single sexual experience - why? If it's because of his love for Maria, Lanchester keeps it a secret from his readers. And there is the child between Stewart and the nun would have to be a bi-racial child and he would have to suffer a certain amount of discrimination in rural China. But Lanchester didn't even bother to touch upon at all. All the major events in Hong Kong and China are glazed over. And Please Please tell me what's the point of tagging a short story about a flighty British woman in the beginning? The novel reads like a first draft - sloppy, careless and uneven.
