- Published: 3 October 2005
- ISBN: 9780553816723
- Imprint: Bantam
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $35.00
Gweilo: Memories Of A Hong Kong Childhood
- Published: 3 October 2005
- ISBN: 9780553816723
- Imprint: Bantam
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $35.00
Admirably evocative... one longs to learn what happened next; but, alas, we never will
The Sunday Times
It has such pace and power... his memoir is, above all, a celebration... the portrait of his parents... is particularly fine
Sunday Telegraph
A classic memoir... the voice of the youthful narrator carries the reader on in a wonderfully honest tone... Booth has delivered a pre-coming-of-age book that ranks with the best of the breed. The writing is superb... it is a more than worth legacy to his prolific literary life, but also stands as one of the most original and engaging memoirs of recent years, all the more telling because it is so personal, witty and true
The Times
Highly evocative... as a sharp-eyed, sensitive child of a vanished Hong Kong, Booth earns his nostalgia... his family are not the only ones who will enjoy the book
Daily Telegraph
Booth must rank as a giant of modern English letters... Gweilo is alive with delight in the new... this sunny, luminous account of a very special time and place will have to serve as an epitaph... ensuring that he will remain forever young
Time Magazine
His finest work. Full of local colour and packed with incident
Evening Standard ‘Pick of the Year’
Full of colour and anecdote, wit and originality, his tale of the young 'gweilo' (pale fellow) loose in an exotic motley of rickshaw coolies, street magicians, Triads, drunken expats and others is crafted with deftness and aplomb. My type of leisure reading - off-beat and polished
Good Book Guide