The borrowed
By: Chan Ho-Kei ; translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang
Contributors: Tiang, Jeremy, translator
Edition: First Grove Atlantic edition.
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780802125880
Subjects: Detectives; Fiction
Description: Follows six cases from the fifty-year career of brilliant Hong Kong detective Kwan Chun-dok, each from a pivotal period of the territory's history, from Chun-dok's experiences in the 1967 leftist riot to his final 2013 case in a Hong-Kong growing to resemble a police state.
Notes: "First published in the English language in Great Britain in 2016 by Head of Zeus"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: The truth between black and white -- (2013); title: The prisoner's dilemma -- (2003); title: The longest day -- (1997); title: The balance of Themis -- (1989); title: Borrowed place -- (1977); title: Borrowed time-- (1967).