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The Borrowed (Paperback)
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The Borrowed (Paperback)
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Loot Price R410
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From award-winning Hong Kong writer Chan Ho-Kei, The Borrowed tells
the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a Hong Kong detective whose career
spans fifty years of the territory's history. A deductive
powerhouse, Kwan becomes a legend in the force, nicknamed "the Eye
of Heaven" by his awe-struck colleagues. Divided into six sections
told in reverse chronological order--each of which covers an
important case in Kwan's career and takes place at a pivotal moment
in Hong Kong history from the 1960s to the present day--The
Borrowed follows Kwan from his experiences during the Leftist Riot
in 1967, when a bombing plot threatens many lives; the conflict
between the HK Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against
Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; to the
Handover in 1997; and the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called
on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire,
while Hong Kong increasingly resembles a police state. Along the
way we meet Communist rioters, ultraviolent gangsters, stallholders
at the city's many covered markets, pop singers enmeshed in the
high-stakes machinery of star-making, and a people always caught in
the shifting balance of political power, whether in London or
Beijing--all coalescing into a dynamic portrait of this fascinating
city. Tracing a broad historical arc, The Borrowed reveals just how
closely everything is connected, how history always repeats itself,
and how we have come full circle to repeat the political upheaval
and societal unrest of the past. It is a gripping, brilliantly
constructed novel from a talented new voice.
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