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Timothy Mo

Britishb. 1950Literary Fiction

British-Hong Kong novelist whose An Insular Possession and Sour Sweet brought the experience of the Chinese diaspora to literary fiction with wit and historical depth.

Works

  • Sour SweetNovel about a Chinese takeaway family in London navigating prejudice and adaptation→
  • An Insular PossessionHistorical fiction capturing Hong Kong's colonial transformation through photographs and letters→
  • The Redundancy of CouragePolitical novel set in East Timor exploring courage, love, and resistance to dictatorship→
  • Brownout on Breadfruit BoulevardExperimental novel about cultural collision set in the Philippines during political crisis→

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