Hong Kong Rose by XU XI ISBN 9789889706050 | Paperback | Chameleon Press | March 2004 | HK$70.00 Buy this book from Paddyfield.com

'In January 1972, I, Rose Kho, Went to college in the United States. By May of'74, I came home with my BS in political science and a minor in mathematics. I married my childhood sweetheart Paul Lie in the summer of'77. Gordie says it was those early American years that really changed my life.' Set against the Asian and international airline world, Hong Kong Rose rewinds through a drama set in Hong Kong of the 1970s. Courage, cowardice and compromise weave through this tale of love, and lust, unrequited and transformed, in two of the world's great cities. "Hong Kong Rose explores the lives of those in-between--between the city's Chinese and English speaking milieus, between customs, between a female wife and a male 'mistress'. It depicts Hong Kong from an unusual angle and follows the journey of some of its inhabitants in Xu Xi's well-honed prose." -- Evans Chan, critic/filmmaker