Word: harborers
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...geography lies its spirit. Stretching over seven decades, and narrated by three different characters, Lanchester's novel tells the story of Hong Kong: its murky past, its riotous rise, its uncertain present. Lanchester paints an exquisitely detailed picture of the city the Chinese call hueng gong, or fragrant harbor. But this landscape?devoid of human emotion?is oddly empty, much like his maps, which are clean and stark, with just a smattering of well-known buildings. Fragrant Harbour wants to be an intimate epic, but it's too rushed to be epic, too reticent to be intimate...
...Fragrant Harbor has been advertised as the Great Hong Kong Expat Novel?hardly a genre fraught with competition. Fortunately, Lanchester?an Englishman raised in Hong Kong?has a familiarity with the city that extends far beyond the numbing bubble of contemporary expatriate life. He shows that almost everyone who has helped build Hong Kong over the past 50 years has been, in effect, an expat?from the Westerners with empty pockets and overflowing dreams to the mainland refugees who made the city their own. Each of the three narrators of Fragrant Harbour has vivid memories of first seeing Hong Kong...
...doors to abode seekers. Lanchester is smart enough not to predict the future of Hong Kong, but one wonders if the city's endless capacity for renewal?its greatest gift?will survive without the constant influx of new schemers, dreamers and refugees to clap fresh eyes on that bustling harbor, and breathe deep its pungent fragrance...
...predecessor? The OAU sought merely to manage Africa's conflicts and crises. Instead, they have to be resolved - "and I do mean resolved," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told heads of state and other representatives of the OAU's 53 members gathered for the changeover in the South African harbor city of Durban last week. As the fanfares of the launch ceremony faded, however, some delegates were already uneasy. The A.U.'s objectives and principles emphasize democratic codes of conduct that are certainly not practiced by several of its members. Unlike the OAU, the new Union also has the right...
...last 12 years, support for an urban ring has grown. This spring, the Conservation Law Foundation, an influential environmental group known for suing the state to clean up Boston Harbor, added its name to the list of supporters when it published a paper calling for the development of urban ring transit...