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The borrowed / Chan Ho-Kei ; translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang.

Title
The borrowed / Chan Ho-Kei ; translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang.
Author
  • 陳浩基
  • Chen, Haoji
Publication
  • New York : Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2017.
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
Tiang, Jeremy
Description
490 pages; 21 cm
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Hong Kong Police Force (1997- ) > Fiction
  • Hong Kong Police Force (1997- )
  • Short stories
  • Mystery fiction
  • Hong Kong (China) > Fiction
  • Hong Kong (China) > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Detective and mystery fiction
  • Mystery fiction
Note
  • "First published in the English language in Great Britain in 2016 by Head of Zeus"--title page verso.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The truth between black and white (2013) -- The prisoner's dilemma (2003) -- The longest day (1997) -- The balance of Themis (1989) -- Borrowed place (1977) -- Borrowed time (1967).
ISBN
  • 9780802125880
  • 0802125883
  • 9780802189820 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • 967097045
  • SCSB-12089274
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library