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The borrowed

Chan Ho-Kei

2016490 pagesabout 7–11 hours
2016
first published
  • 2016Head of Zeus · ENGISBN 9781784971502
  • 2017Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · ENGISBN 9780802189820
  • 2017Grove Press, Black Cat · 490 pages · ENGISBN 9780802125880
  • 2017House of Anansi Press · 496 pages · ENGISBN 9781487000608
  • 2017Head of Zeus · 498 pages · ENGISBN 9781784971533
  • 2016imustiISBN 9781784971519
MysteriousTenseLong read

Follows six cases from the fifty-year career of brilliant Hong Kong detective Kwan Chun-dok, each from a pivotal period of the territory's history, from Chun-dok's experiences in the 1967 leftist riot to his final 2013 case in a Hong-Kong growing to resemble a police state.

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Plot intensityEventful
CommitmentQuick escape

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Reading situationCommuteWaiting
ThemesJustice
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