Product Description

KwayFay was once a "Cockroach Child", a homeless scavenger on Hong Kong s waterfronts. Now grown, she lives in a squatter shack on the mountain slopes, and commutes each day to her job as a lowly office clerk. She survives by paying bribes if she has to, and keeping silent when abused. Her only ally is Grandmother s Ghost. Hong Kong is in ferment, for this is the time just before the Handover, when the Peoples Republic of China will repossess the Crown Colony. Hongs and Triads, underworld organisations above the law, are concerned, for China s policy is to eliminate criminal cliques. The head of a Triad learns of the impoverished "no-family" girl who talks to ghosts, and wonders if she is a way out of his dilemma - but superstition is also forbidden by the incoming regime. It seems the girl might be the last chance for his Triad s survival.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #553894 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-01
• Released on: 2006-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
An enthralling yarn that walks a perilous line between socio-political reality and a fascinating dream world of the unique heroine's making --Maxim Jakubowski, the Guardian

Definitely another collector's item from the very talented Mr Gash --Bolton Evening News

About the Author
Jonathan Gash is the author of a number of crime novels including the popular Lovejoy series. A qualified doctor, specialising in tropical medicine, he lists his hobbies as antique collecting and his family. Jonathan lives in Essex.

Customer Reviews

Please let there be another book with Kwayfay
Gash, as ever, has produced a page turner but this one I had to force myself to read slowly -- just a few pages each night. I wanted to prolong my time with Kwayfay.

I can only hope that Gash will continue the story ... I want to see how Little Sister's strength, morality and honesty affect the men of the Triad. And I want to know more about the Jade Woman who also heard Ghost.

Clearly drawn characters, a never-ending undercurrent of threat mixed with ever-near protection (which was odd and comforting), and a girl so human and decent that it just begs another story. (Okay, it's probably me that's begging. Are you listening Mr. Gash?)

Read it!!
Funny, quirky, really hard to categorize,,,so different, I loved it: srory of a young woman in Hong Kong before the takeover by China who talks to the ghost of her great, great, great grandmother and has innocently got caught up in the machinations of a Triad leader. She tries to lie and bluff her way out of problems, and every time she does it seems to re-inforce the fact that she can really see the future. Hysterically funny but also touching...contrast between grinding poverty and "wretched excess",,,and the characters are so well depicted.