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...ARTS & SOCIETY Cinema: Hooray for Bollywood Books: Fragrant Harbour...
...ARTS & SOCIETY Cinema: Hooray for Bollywood Books: Fragrant Harbour...
...much as a Suzie Wong, let alone a Mrs. Stewart. As it is ever so slowly inferred, he's in love with Sister Maria, and she with him. As affairs go, this is a 0-0 tie. It's a cold flame that animates the heart of Fragrant Harbour, a love that gives off little heat...
...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. Dawn in her business-class Cathay Pacific seat, enduring the white-knuckle approach to Kai Tak Airport; Tom hanging from the rail of his steam liner, drinking in the "junks like overgrown children's toys"; Matthew, the refugee, who crawled into Hong...
...ARTS & SOCIETY Cinema: Hooray for Bollywood Books: Fragrant Harbour...