Hong Kong Rose
by Xu Xi
Price: $7.99 USD. 114490 words.
Language: English. Published by Typhoon Media on May 24, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Asian American.
The novel rewinds through a drama set in Hong Kong of the seventies, where Confucian family ties and British colonial society embrace Rose's "perfect" marriage to a lawyer from a prominent South African Chinese family. But even before the wedding, a dark underside to that family begins to emerge; Rose must confront the reality of her new life as it unfolds with many surprising twists and turns.