The Straits Times
A rough Hong Kong shanty town comes to life in novel
In this week s edition of Book Box, The Sunday Times looks at new books that take you around Asia past and present
Poet Kit Fan grew up near Diamond Hill, one of the last shanty towns of Hong Kong, and in his novel, he resurrects the neighbourhood as it would have looked in 1987.PHOTO: HUGH HAUGHTON
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