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For weeks they went all over London on the little red Honda, weaving up hills at walking speed, down alleys and pavements, through shopping precincts, warm in the late-summer nights . . . and he'd park outside pubs, proud of his China girl . . .
For Tom it was a wonderful summer. Innocent, broke and slightly awestruck on his arrival in London, he was working as a delivery boy at a Chinese takeaway. Then May, the daughter of the owner, became his love.
But suddenly, inexplicably, Tom loses his home, his job and his beloved.
A squat, then a battered green van, become his refuge, his longing for May his one obsession. As Tom travels through the desperate sub cultures of low-life London, he is also caught up in his dreams about China, each more vivid and shocking than the last.
China Dreams is dazzling, disturbing, lyrical and occasionally fearsome – a stunning literary achievement.
For Tom it was a wonderful summer. Innocent, broke and slightly awestruck on his arrival in London, he was working as a delivery boy at a Chinese takeaway. Then May, the daughter of the owner, became his love.
But suddenly, inexplicably, Tom loses his home, his job and his beloved.
A squat, then a battered green van, become his refuge, his longing for May his one obsession. As Tom travels through the desperate sub cultures of low-life London, he is also caught up in his dreams about China, each more vivid and shocking than the last.
China Dreams is dazzling, disturbing, lyrical and occasionally fearsome – a stunning literary achievement.
About the author
Sid Smith spent the first seven years of his working life in labouring jobs. Since then he has hitchhiked 9,000 miles around the US, acquired a pilot’s licence for paragliders, and been married with full Shinto rites at a shrine in southern Japan. His first novel, Something Like A House , won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His second novel, A House By The River, was published to huge acclaim in 2003. China Dreams is his third novel.
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