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An Eventful Childhood in the Pearl of the Orient
by jc_hall | Dec 06 '07
Pros: wonderfully evocative of a time and place
Cons: covers only a few years in the author's childhood

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Product Rating: 5.0



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by virtuelle2
Lovely review! So sad to learn this book was also an epitaph by the author. (I'm sorry I never saw the pre-1997 Hong Kong. Lots of Filipinos visited there in the 50s and 60s to go shopping, as the HK dollar was lower than the Philippine peso - no longer the case for a long time now!).

Thanks for another fine review.

~ Teresa
Dec 07 '07
12:38 pm PST