Kowloon Tong (novel)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kowloon Tong (1997) is a novel by Paul Theroux about Bunt, an English mummy's boy born and raised in Hong Kong. He is made an offer for his textile factory by the shady Mr Hung, and has no choice but to accept, when it is made clear that Mr Hung knows all about the part of Bunt's life that he has kept secret from his mother. A rich and entertaining story set in the days leading up to the great handover to China of Hong Kong from the British.