Word: memoirize
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...home; Mum wants to stay. As the family heads for the ship that will return them to England, she impulsively grabs Martin and leaps from the car. Gweilo is artfully shy of detail about what comes next, and sadly there will be no sequel. So this sunny, luminous memoir?along with the three forthcoming children's books the dying Booth also completed?will have to serve as his epitaph, ensuring that he will remain forever young...
...Hong Kong in 1952, his parents took him to lunch at the British naval base where his father was about to start work. There the seven-year-old was confronted with a frightening plateful of leggy crustaceans unknown back in England. As he recounts in Gweilo, a memoir of his first three years in the former crown colony, a naval officer briefed him on local customs: "Whenever someone offers you something to eat, accept...
...look for anything morose here, however. Gweilo is sometimes a bit novelistic for a memoir, but it is alive with delight in the new. The boy's golden hair is considered lucky by the Chinese, who cannot resist touching it. "I was a walking talking talisman," he writes. This, plus his status as a gweilo ("ghostly man," or Caucasian), allows him to walk undeterred into Hong Kong's brothels and opium dens to befriend coolies, Triad gangsters and the real-life model for Hiroshima Joe. Perhaps Booth's biggest coup is talking his way into Kowloon Walled City, a notorious...
...accessible. A guy to be trusted." That's certainly how Putin sees him. Sechin first met the future President in 1990 on an official visit to Brazil, where he translated for Putin. He hasn't left Putin's side since. "I liked Sechin," Putin wrote in his 2000 memoir. "When I moved to Moscow, he asked to go along. I took him." He served as Putin's factotum in the Kremlin in 1997, and in the Federal Security Service (FSB) as Putin became its director in 1998. When Putin became acting President, he named Sechin deputy chief of staff. "Sechin...
DIED. GLORIA EMERSON, 75, Vietnam reporter for the New York Times and author of Winners & Losers, an award-winning memoir of the war; an apparent suicide; in New York City. One of the few female journalists to cover the war, Emerson later said she went to Vietnam because "they ran out of men." She focused on personal stories of the war, including tales of soldiers dying, which affected her deeply. "It all becomes normal, the other correspondents, men, would say. In time you'll see," she wrote. "They lied." Suffering from Parkinson's disease, she left behind a self-penned...