Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Mo's gem of a book is
bursting with genuinely original comic characters. Wallace Nolasco,
like the legendary King of the monkeys continually gets up to 'bad
mischiefs'; but unusually he not only manages to get out of
trouble, he usually to come up trumps. Wallace marries into the
Chinese Poon family and finds himself pitched into a continual
battle of wits with Mr Poon, the head of the household, his son Ah
Lung and the rest of the family and servants. He lights a fire and
is in trouble because Mr Poon keeps his gold ingots up the chimney.
Wallace, the superlative subversive, encourages his nephews to ask
questions of their teachers and they return home with their mouths
sealed with sticking plaster. When Mr Poon fails to hand over May
Ling's dowry, Wallace manages to disrupt the entire household's
longstanding rhythm. Becoming the fall guy in Mr Poon's scheme to
win government contracts, he is banished to the countryside where
he causes even more hilarious havoc, including accidentally
desecrating an ossuary and blowing up a flooded valley with
explosives. Mo deftly invests the tiniest incident with hilarity.
This is comic writing of the highest degree. (Kirkus UK)
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