China Dreams
Publisher: Picador; Macmillan UK
Published: January 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780330481250
Subjects: Modern fiction
Description: "For weeks they went all over London on the little red Honda, weaving up hills at walking speed, down alleys and pavements, through shopping precincts, warm in the late-summer nights ... and he'd park outside pubs, proud of his China girl." "For Tom it was a wonderful summer. Innocent, broke and slightly awestruck on his arrival in London, he was working as a delivery boy at a Chinese takeaway. Then May, the daughter of the owner, became his love. But suddenly, inexplicably, Tom loses his home, his job and his beloved. A squat, then a battered green van, become his refuge, his longing for May his one obsession. As Tom travels through the desperate sub cultures of low-life London, he is also caught up in his dreams about China, each more vivid and shocking than the last. Loosely completing the 'China trilogy' begun with Something Like A House and A House By the River, this is the story of a young man's struggle to regain his lost love."--BOOK JACKET.