Adolph Ng, an effete, Canadian-educated hotel owner of Chinese origin, leads a placid existence on Danu, the eastern half of an island to the north of Australia.
Timothy Mo’s deft portrayal of London’s Chinatown in the 1960s, where a thriving community lives by its own precise and violent rules.
At the centre of 1960s London, the Chinese community flourishes like a spiky, brilliant crystal garden in the murky waters of Soho. Pitched into an alien city, which is neither hostile nor friendly but very strange and very foreign, the Chen family prospers by skilfully, and sometimes incongruously, blending tradition and opportunity. But no private family lives beyond the reach of the largest and most powerful Chinese ‘family’ - the Triad.
Timothy Mo
About the Author
Timothy Peter Mo was born in Hong Kong. Three of his novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.Other nominated books by Timothy Mo
Timothy Mo’s sweeping historical novel is set on the China coast in the 1830s, before and during the 19th-century Opium Wars.
