01444nam a2200217 i 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020003900062040002600101082001500127100002400142245003000166264003600196300002300232336002100255337002500276338002300301520077800324651009201102655003201194OSt20231205125440.0231205s2022    enk    gr     000 f eng d  a9780349701684cRM 54.90qpaperback  aPPAKbeng cPPAKerda04a823.922231 aFan, Kit,eauthor. 00aDIAMOND HILL /cKIT FAN.  1aLondon :bDialogue Books,c2021  a342 pages ;c20 cm  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aIt is 1987 and three years since Britain signed the Joint 
       Declaration agreeing to hand over its last colony, Hong 
       Kong, to China in 1997. With that declaration comes the 
       promise that the city will remain unchanged for fifty 
       years. But upheaval is already happening in Diamond Hill. 
       Once the 'Hollywood of the Orient,' it is now a shanty 
       town and an eyesore right in the middle of a glitzy 
       financial hub. Buddha, a recovering heroin addict, returns
       home to find the shabby neighborhood being bulldozed to 
       make room for gleaming towers. Buddhist nuns, drug gangs, 
       property developers, the government and foreign powers 
       each have itchy palms, and all want a piece of Diamond 
       Hill.  0aHong Kong (China)xHistoryyTransfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997vFiction.  7aHistorical fiction.2lcgft