Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood AUTH-5865391 sacred music

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Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood AUTH-5865391 sacred musicAt seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in 1952. This is his memoir of that youth, a time when he had access to corners of the colony normally closed to a gweilo, a pale fellow like him. From the plink plonk man with his dancing monkey to Nagasaki Jim, and from a drunken child molester to the Queen of Kowloon (the crazed tramp who may have been a Romanov), Martin saw it all but