Kowloon Tong

General Fiction Large Print Edition Absolutely riveting. Booklist The accomplished Theroux is always a delight to read. Publishers Weekly For Neville Bunt Mullard and his mother Betty, Hong Kong is very much part of Britain. Its breakfasts, high teas, bad weather, roast beef at Fattys Chophouse, and for Bunt, the blue hotels of Kowloon Tong. Now ninety-nine years of colonial rule is about to end, as Britain hands over Hong Kong to China. When a Chinese mainlander, Mr. Hung, offers the Mullards a handsome sum for the family business, they refuse. But soon Bunt comes to realize that Mr. Hung isnt anything like the Chinese hes lived alongside for years. Mr. Hung will accept no refusals. Bunts cozy, sheltered world is about to unravel . . .