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Gash, Jonathan.
The Year of the Woman
[Libby].
Allison & Busby,
2013.
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Fiction.
Mystery.
KwayFay was once a 'Cockraoch Child', a homeless scavenger on Hong Kong's waterfronts. Now she lives in a squatter shack on the mountain slopes, and commutes daily 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. There is a tense, pregnant feel to Hong Kong, for this is the time just before the Handover, when the People's Republic of China will repossess the Crown Colony. Hongs and Triads - underworld organisations that are above the law - are concerned, since China's policy is to eliminate criminal cliques. The head of a Triad learns of the impoverished 'no-family' girl who talks to ghosts, and wonders if she could hold the answer to the questions of an uncertain future. Except that superstition is also forbidden by the incoming regime: the girl might be the last chance for his Triad's survival - but believing in her might prove to be its destruction.
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