{"product_id":"golden-boy-memories-of-a-hong-kong-childhood-paperback","title":"Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartin Booth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in 1952. This is his memoir of that youth, a time when he had access to corners of the colony normally closed to a \u003ci\u003egweilo, \u003c\/i\u003e a pale fellow like him. From the plink plonk man with his dancing monkey to Nagasaki Jim, and from a drunken child molester to the Queen of Kowloon (the crazed tramp who may have been a Romanov), Martin saw it all--but his memoir illustrates a deeper challenge in his warring parents. This is an intimate and powerful memory of a place and time now past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet. His father was posted there in 1952, and this memoir is his telling of that youth, a time when he had access to the corners of a colony normally closed to a \"Gweilo,\" a \"pale fellow\" like him. \u003cbr\u003eHis experiences were colorful and vast. Befriending rickshaw coolies and local stallholders, he learned Cantonese, sampled delicacies such as boiled water beetles and one-hundred-year-old eggs, and participated in vibrant festivals. He even entered the forbidden Kowloon Walled City, wandered into a secret lair of Triads, and visited an opium den. \u003cbr\u003eFrom the plink-plonk man with his dancing monkey to the Queen of Kowloon (a crazed tramp who may have been a Romanov), Martin Booth saw it all---but his memoir illustrates the deeper challenges he faced in his warring parents: a broad-minded mother who embraced all things Chinese and a bigoted father who was enraged by his family's interest in \"going native.\" \u003cbr\u003eMartin Booth's compelling memoir, the last book he completed before dying, glows with infectious curiosity and humor and is an intimate representation of the now extinct time and place of his growing up.\u003cbr\u003e\"Marvelously appealing memoir charts an enchanted few years of boyhood in post-war Hong Kong. Warm and vivid, bursting with life and energy, this is a valentine--but a clear-eyed one--to a particular place and time.\"--\"Kirkus (starred) \"One of the most original and engaging memoirs of recent years. Personal, witty, and true.\"--\"The Times (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\"Wonderful memoir...such pace and power.\"--\"Sunday Telegraph (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\"Highly evocative. As a sharp-eyed, sensitive child of a vanished Hong Kong, Booth earns hisnostalgia.\"--\"The Daily Telegraph (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Booth\u003c\/b\u003e wrote the nonfiction histories \u003ci\u003eCannabis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOpium\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eHiroshima Joe, \u003c\/i\u003e among many others. He died shortly after completing this manuscript in 2004.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45330671534182,"sku":"9780312426262","price":34.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Q2FOdXJkTFhscXFRa3RDa1FQbTJZdz09.webp?v=1774374642","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/golden-boy-memories-of-a-hong-kong-childhood-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}