City of Broken Promises (Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History)

Coates, Austin

ISBN 10: 9622090761 ISBN 13: 9789622090767

Published by Hong Kong University Press, 2009

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The city is Macao, the Portuguese settlement on the China Coast, as it was more than 200 years ago. This moving novel that captures the time and place so convincingly is a historical reconstruction of the years 1780 to 1795 and the lives of Martha Merop and her English lover are unique in this period.

About the Author: Austin Coates (1922--97), a former senior British civil servant in Hong Kong, Malaya, and Sarawak, left government service at age forty to pursue a professional writing career. Widely regarded as the most distinguished English-language author in Hong Kong,

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Title: City of Broken Promises (Echoes: Classics of...
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good

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