The Year of the Woman

by Jonathan Gash

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KwayFay lives alone in a squatter shack on the mountain slopes of Hong Kong, and commutes each day to her job as a lowly office clerk. She survives by paying bribes, if she has to, and keeping silent when abused. Her only ally is Grandmother's Ghost. On the brink of the Hand Over with China, the Hongs and Triads - underworld organisations above the law - are concerned, since China's policy is to eliminate criminal cliques. When the head of a Triad learns of the impoverished 'no-family' girl who talks to ghosts, he wonders if she is a way out of his dilemma...
  • ISBN10 0749082615
  • ISBN13 9780749082611
  • Publish Date 31 October 2005 (first published 1 October 2004)
  • Publish Status Withdrawn
  • Out of Print 1 October 2014
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Allison & Busby
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 288
  • Language English