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The Redundancy of Courage
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I have no quarrel with the author's position on the invasion and occupation on East Timor. With their racism and territorial aggression, I've always considered the Indonesians, or more precisely their Javan elite, to be the Nazis of South East Asia. But I do have several problems with this novel.
In the first place, Mo "tells" rather than "shows"... »
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Sour Sweet (Aventura)
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I think that this book - Sour Sweet - by Timothy Mo was a great and enjoyable book to read. His writing on Chinese family adapting to the British and his ending on how the life ended was great literature, but sympathizing and as a Chinese, I have never heard of such stories. So when I first read it, it touched me through my heart, and I started giving ... »
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An Insular Possesion
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Leisurely may be the best word to describe this novel set during the first Opium War and the founding of the British settlement at Hong Kong. Timothy Mo takes his time letting us get to know Gideon Chase and Walter Eastman and a large cast of traders, artists, debutantes and warriors who shared a cocooned existence in the trading enclaves of Canton, Ma... »
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The Monkey King
Timothy Mo's first novel is a blisteringly funny account of the misadventures of Wallace Nolasco, a Macau native who marries into a wickedly dysfunctional... »
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Sour sweet
Sour Sweet enlightens Americans and Europeans whose only idea of newly-arrive Asian immmigrants is one of super-students. A great look at how they view u... »
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