Sour Sweet
Timothy Mo
287 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0952419327
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Language: English
Publish: April 8, 1999
20th CenturyAsiaAsian LiteratureChinaContemporaryFictionLiterary FictionModernNovelsRoman
Shortlisted for the 1982 Booker Prize, this novel explores the clans and conflicts of Soho’s Chinatown, where the Chen family arrive and want to succeed as restaurateurs in the 1960s. No family can survive for long without encountering the Triads. By the author of “The Redundancy of Courage”.