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| | PaulTheroux.com {} Fiction {} Kowloon Tong |
 | | For Neville "Bunt" Mullard and his mother, Betty, Hong Kong is part of Britain -- one of the pleasanter parts; it is also cozy, monotonous, proftable and homely. |
 | | It is big breakfasts and high tea and bad weather, the race meetings at Happy Valley, the roast beef at Fatty's Chophouse, and, for Bunt, the "blue hotels" of Kowloon Tong, where he eats his packed lunches and sometimes rents a room by the hour with a girl. |
 | | With incisively observed characters and perfect prose, in Kowloon Tong Paul Theroux has created one of his finest novels. |
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