Books by Chan Ho-Kei
“The novel spans half a century. We start with meeting the two detectives in 2013, and then you go backwards in time (as far as 1967) to meet their younger selves and see how what happened in the past informed what happened in the future. The novel encompasses a number of classic detective stories that play with the conventions of the genre: there’s a starlet falling from a bridge to her death, a kidnapping, rival gangs, the 1967 riots against the colonial government…It’s a page-turner. It’s a thick book—a block, basically—but I couldn’t put it down. It draws you in with all its twists and turns, and its powerful sense of momentum. The Borrowed has won major awards in Japan and Taiwan and been translated into over a dozen languages. And of course, you know a book’s made it when Wong Kar-wai buys the movie rights.” Read more...
Wong Yi, Novelist
Interviews where books by Chan Ho-Kei were recommended
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Mourning a Breast
Xi Xi and Jennifer Feeley (translator) -
2
The Drunkard
Liu Yichang, Charlotte Chun-lam Yiu (translator) -
3
Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City
Dung Kai-cheung and Anders Hansson & Bonnie S. McDougall (translators) -
4
The Borrowed
by Chan Ho-Kei & Jeremy Tiang (translator) -
5
The Kite Family
Hon Lai-chu and Andrea Lingenfelter (translator)
The Best Hong Kong Novels, recommended by Wong Yi
The Best Hong Kong Novels, recommended by Wong Yi
Hong Kong’s fiction scene punches above its weight, and it’s not all political allusion. From magical realism to detective fiction, award-winning writer Wong Yi recommends her five favourite novels from a city depicted in fictional form as simultaneously claustrophobic and cosmopolitan.
