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Tales from Victoria Park

Short stories of Indonesian women in Hong Kong
  • ISBN-13: 9789881613936
  • Publisher: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
    Imprint: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
  • By Todd Crowell
  • Price: AUD $28.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 31/01/2022
  • Format: Paperback (199.00mm X 132.00mm) 204 pages Weight: 223g
  • Categories: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) [FA]
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Victoria Park in Hong Kong is the crossroads for thousands of Muslim women who come from Indonesia to find their fortunes or at least support their families in the teeming Chinese city. Most come as maids, but some descend into the netherworld of overstayers, illegal street hawkers and PR girls. Whoever they are, they all know Dina: a woman who sells telephone cards, changes money, dispenses advice and listens to their tales of exile."
For 14 years (1987-2001) Todd Crowell worked as a Senior Writer for Asiaweek, the leading English-language news magazine, published in Hong Kong by Time Warner. He has contributed regularly to the Christian Science Monitor and Asian Wall Street Journal among other publications and has worked as a book editor, copy editor and freelance writer in Hong Kong, Thailand and now Japan, where he serves as Japan correspondent for Asia Sentinel. His other books include The Dictionary of the Asian Language; Explore Macau; Farewell, My Colony: Last Years in the Life of British Hong Kong; and Tokyo: City on the Edge.
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