num_pages: 352
description: At 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 his memoir illustrates a deeper challenge in his warring parents. This is an intimate and powerful memory of a place and time now past.
language: English
title: Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
titlecomplete: Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
genres: Asian Literature, Biography, China, History, Autobiography, Asia, Nonfiction, Travel, Biography Memoir, Memoir
ratings_count: 1931
places: Hong Kong
publisher: Picador