![]() ![]() With the current unrest in Hong Kong having now been going on for many months and with no resolution yet in sight, the first book to cover the 2014 Umbrella Movement in a storytelling format is a welcome read. If newspapers are the first draft of history, literature aspires to be eternal, and so stories of major events can come to greatly shape the public’s knowledge, or understanding, of what occurred. There is therefore a first-mover advantage to getting a work out which captures recent political drama or strife, converting news reports into something a bit more lasting. It usually takes time for fiction to handle current events the wheels of publishing turn but slowly. ![]() This is a provided review of Tom Carter's American Bum in China published by Camphor Press and reviewed by former the Beijinger editor Mike Cormack. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |