num_pages: 287
description: 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".
language: English
title: Sour Sweet
titlecomplete: Sour Sweet
genres: China, Asian Literature, Roman, Asia, Novels, 20th Century, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Modern
ratings_count: 819
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Hawthornden Prize
publisher: Paddleless Press