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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Diamond Hill

Diamond Hill

Fan, Kit

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ISBN10: 1642860883
ISBN13: 9781642860887
Publisher: World Editions
Published: May 4 2021
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

I enjoyed Diamond Hill very much. It's fantastically evocative of a time and place, full of vivid images but never at the expense of story. A hugely impressive first novel.--DAVID NICHOLLS, bestselling author of One Day

It is 1987 and three years since Britain signed the Joint Declaration agreeing to hand over its last colony, Hong Kong, to China in 1997. With that declaration comes the promise that the city will remain unchanged for fifty years. But upheaval is already happening in Diamond Hill. Once the 'Hollywood of the Orient, ' it is now a shanty town and an eyesore right in the middle of a glitzy financial hub. Buddha, a recovering heroin addict, returns home to find the shabby neighborhood being bulldozed to make room for gleaming towers. Buddhist nuns, drug gangs, property developers, the government and foreign powers each have itchy palms, and all want a piece of Diamond Hill. Kit Fan's hard-hitting and exhilarating debut is a requiem for a disappearing city, as well as a meditation on powerlessness, religion, memory, and displacement.

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