Gweilo: Memories Of A Hong Kong Childhood

A classic memoir… the voice of the youthful narrator carries the reader on in a wonderfully honest tone… Booth has delivered a pre-coming-of-age book that ranks with the best of the breed. The writing is superb… it is a more than worth legacy to his prolific literary life, but also stands as one of the most original and engaging memoirs of recent years, all the more telling because it is so personal, witty and true * The Times *Admirably evocative… one longs to learn what happened next; but, alas, we never will * The Sunday Times *It has such pace and power… his memoir is, above all, a celebration… the portrait of his parents… is particularly fine * Sunday Telegraph *Highly evocative… as a sharp-eyed, sensitive child of a vanished Hong Kong, Booth earns his nostalgia… his family are not the only ones who will enjoy the book * Daily Telegraph *His finest work. Full of local colour and packed with incident * Evening Standard ‘Pick of the Year’ *Booth must rank as a giant of modern English letters… Gweilo is alive with delight in the new… this sunny, luminous account of a very special time and place will have to serve as an epitaph… ensuring that he will remain forever young * Time Magazine *Full of colour and anecdote, wit and originality, his tale of the young ‘gweilo’ (pale fellow) loose in an exotic motley of rickshaw coolies, street magicians, Triads, drunken expats and others is crafted with deftness and aplomb. My type of leisure reading - off-beat and polished * Good Book Guide *

Martin Booth is internationally known as a writer and biographer. An acclaimed novelist, his The Industry of Souls was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1998. When he was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2002 he was inspired to delve into his Hong Kong childhood and write Gweilo. He died in February 2004, shortly after completing the manuscript.

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