Timothy Mo
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