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...beetles, chew sugarcane stalks, polish ancestral bones on "hungry ghosts" day, and speak rudimentary Cantonese. He spends long afternoons wandering around what was then a quiet city of green hills and mysterious alleys, catching geckos and digging up spent bullets - and, one scary day, the skeleton of a Japanese soldier. Watching a sailor pinch a bar girl on the bottom, he tries out that sign of affection on his family's elderly Chinese maid, with disastrous results. When his father gets into a minor road accident, an angry mob gathers - until Martin, then 9, stuns everyone into silence with...
...Hong Kong by the 1941 Japanese invasion. Conservationists value Booth's many books and TV documentaries on African wildlife (he spent a few years in Kenya). There's also a small chance you saw a copy of his 1985 adult novel Hiroshima Joe, the tale of a captured British soldier who survives the first atomic bombing, which was an international best seller. And Booth's Industry of Souls was short-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize in 1998. But even that estimable Holocaust novel was rejected by major publishers before a small imprint picked it up for a pitiful...
...because of outrageous gas prices, drivers and their supporters protested in the streets. The protest then became about something bigger than gasoline: People protested the lack of jobs, the intermittent government services and the poor economy. The Lebanese Army opened fire on the crowd after a protester shot a soldier. Six people were killed. It is not surprising, then, that discussions about domestic politics with the drivers usually end with the often-heard Arabic phrase, “Yel’aan hal-balad,” or “Damn this country...
...crops this year, and very few seeds—almost none. There is infinite despair in the Palestinian territories. Add to that cynicism and disappointment, a few targeted assassinations, a segregation wall, a corrupt leadership, no work, militants demanding pay for your protection, and, finally, a checkpoint soldier with an ugly smile ordering you to dance. If there is really a God up there, He must have been on a break for the past few years...
...different, too: Italian defenders could dish it out, but their strikers were conditioned, at the first touch from the body of a rival, to fall to the ground writhing as if taken down by a sniper in the crowd. English lads, by contrast, never dived, but were expected to soldier on until literally kicked to the ground...