The Road
Will be published approx. on 1. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-962-209-078-1 (ISBN)
Description
Set in 1950s Hong Kong, The Road paints an evocative picture of comfortable colonial life, while at the same time presenting the local people with the shrewd understanding that the author had acquired as District Offi cer in rural Hong Kong.
Reviews / Votes
In this novel Austin Coates offers a unique insight into the small world of Britain's Chinese colony of Hong Kong in the 1950s. The Road shows us the brittle comedy of colonial manners; but at the same time the drama of the construction of a road, with its clash between ambitious modernization and entrenched tradition, emerges as something of an allegory of the building of a modern Hong Kong. Coates was an astute observer of what happens when cultures misunderstand each other, but also of what happens when they understand each other only too well. -- Douglas Kerr, Professor of English, University of Hong KongMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 193 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-962-209-078-1 (9789622090781)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Austin Coates (1922-97), a former senior British civil servant in Hong Kong, Malaya, and Sarawak, left government service soon after completing this novel to pursue a professional writing career. Widely regarded as the most distinguished English-language