Description
Orphaned by a tidal wave which claims her parents and her home, Ming Pei Sha is at the mercy of a world of human squalor and degradation. Destitute, she sells her body in a loveless match with an old business man desperate for a son. And it is at first-hand that she witnesses the savage contracts of the teeming city of Hong Kong, where the affluence and extravagance of the financiers’ palaces cannot hide the appalling poverty of the slums. A city where an ancient and proud civilisation struggles against the corruption and greed of the new.
‘An excellent book … the backgrounds are colourful, the narrative exciting … characters sweat with life’ THE SCOTSMAN
Paperback, 267 pages. In very good preloved condition.