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The Year Of The Woman

The Year Of The Woman

EBook 2013

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 r...

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