Ghetto at the Center of the World : Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2018) and engaging book offers readers

and engaging book offers readers time-tested tools that are fresh

whose guiding principal is playing by the rules

Here 'we can meet the writer full on' (Stephen Fry) as he opens our minds to the people he admires and the things he believes might just mean something - and makes room for us to join the conversation too

waiting for a triumphant re-emergence in a Renaissance vision of ancient beauty

Ghetto at the Center of the World : Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2018) and engaging book offers readersThere is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers from all over Asia and Africa live and work there even backpacking tourists