Goodbye Chinatown - Couverture souple

Fan, Kit

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1642861650 ISBN 13 : 9781642861655

Editeur : World Editions, 2026

Synopsis

Amber Fan, a young Oxford-educated chef, opens the first Chinese fusion joint in London's Chinatown following the failure of her father's traditional restaurant. When her parents decide to return to Hong Kong, taking with them their young son Bobby as well as the haunting secret surrounding his birth, Amber is left alone in London.
Set in the aftermath of Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule, Goodbye Chinatown shows a family torn between two countries. Amber throws herself into her career to escape the painful cycle of family separations and reunions. The tastes and smells spark off every page in Kit Fan's latest novel, making for a truly multisensorial reading experience. Offering a behind-the-scenes of this suburb of London's hospitality economy, and using food to reflect on identity, Goodbye Chinatown paints a portrait of an enterprising emigre who, faced with divided loyalties, invents her own language for home through the culinary arts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kit Fan is a novelist, poet, and critic. He was born in Hong Kong and moved to the UK at the age of twenty-one. Kit Fan's first novel, Diamond Hill, was published in 2021 by Hachette UK. His third poetry collection, The Ink Cloud Reader, was shortlisted for the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection. He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and has won the Northern Writers Awards for Poetry and Fiction, Times Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize, and Poetry's Editors Prize for Reviewing. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-Chair of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society. Goodbye Chinatown is his second novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Editions
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1642861650
• ISBN 13: 9781642861655
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible