Title: Old Filth
First published: 2004
Description: The title, first of all, is an acronym, and stands for "Failed in London, Try Hong Kong." Old Filth -- or Dear Old Filth, when the story starts -- is Sir Edward Feathers, a wealthy old Englishman. As a penniless young man, Eddie Feathers left postwar London and made a magnificent fortune -- "a great stack of money" -- as a Hong Kong barrister, retiring as a judge and returning to England to live out his days.
Subjects: Fiction, Reminiscing, Asians, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Lawyers, fiction, Legal stories, English, England, fiction, English fiction, Orphelins, Romans, nouvelles, Avocats, Malaisiens, Souvenir, Hommes âgés, Histoire, Littérature britannique, Roman judiciaire
Places: England, London, London (England), Asia, Chine, Hongkong, Angleterre, Malaisie occidentale
Time periods: 1867-1942 (Domination britannique), 21e siècle
LC classification: PR6057.A623 O43 2004