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Sour Sweet

by Timothy Mo · 1982

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Shortlisted for the 1982 Booker Prize, this novel explores the clans and conflicts of Soho's Chinatown, where the Chen family arrive and want to succeed as restaurateurs in the 1960s. No family can survive for long without encountering the Triads. By the author of "The Redundancy of Courage".

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
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1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisChinaChinaMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thisLondonLondonMore like thisLess of thisAsiaAsiaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 287 pages

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