Diamond Hill

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Pub Date 04 May 2021 | Archive Date 04 May 2021

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Description

“I enjoyed Diamond Hill very much. It’s fantastically evocative of a time and place, full of vivid images but never at the expense of story. A hugely impressive first novel.”—DAVID NICHOLLS, bestselling author of One Day

It is 1987 and three years since Britain signed the Joint Declaration agreeing to hand over its last colony, Hong Kong, to China in 1997. With that declaration comes the promise that the city will remain unchanged for fifty years. But upheaval is already happening in Diamond Hill. Once the ‘Hollywood of the Orient,’ it is now a shanty town and an eyesore right in the middle of a glitzy financial hub. Buddha, a recovering heroin addict, returns home to find the shabby neighborhood being bulldozed to make room for gleaming towers. Buddhist nuns, drug gangs, property developers, the government and foreign powers each have itchy palms, and all want a piece of Diamond Hill. Kit Fan’s hard-hitting and exhilarating debut is a requiem for a disappearing city, as well as a meditation on powerlessness, religion, memory, and displacement.

“I enjoyed Diamond Hill very much. It’s fantastically evocative of a time and place, full of vivid images but never at the expense of story. A hugely impressive first novel.”—DAVID NICHOLLS...


Advance Praise

“I enjoyed Diamond Hill very much. It’s fantastically evocative of a time and place, full of vivid images but never at the expense of story. A hugely impressive first novel.” David Nicholls, bestselling author of One Day and Us


“An extraordinary book. I can’t remember reading something so terrifying, amazing, moving, and complicatedly fascinating. The characters brand themselves immediately and we know them completely and not at all. The interweaving of the political and the private is startling. It makes such a complete world and shows you how precarious complete worlds are.” Adam Phillips, author of Attention Seeking and Becoming Freud

“I enjoyed Diamond Hill very much. It’s fantastically evocative of a time and place, full of vivid images but never at the expense of story. A hugely impressive first novel.” David Nicholls...


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• Book club discussion guide

• Bookstore co-op available

• Excerpt placement

• Social media campaign

• Giveaways: Goodreads & Shelf Awareness


• Advance reader and digital reader copies

• ABA White Box Mailing

• National TV, radio, print, and online campaign

• Book club discussion guide

• Bookstore co-op available

• Excerpt placement...


Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781642860887
PRICE CA$22.99 (CAD)
PAGES 304

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