refugee style of etiquette (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

The initial plan was to give the book a Bacchanalian swagger and to keep the storyline moving at a rapid pace. But naturally there is a tale to tell so inevitably you get sidetracked into describing a fuller picture. In the initial locale - London - it features music business chicanery from the point of view of a Musician. The various jobs, racketeers and conmen involved in a line of work that leaves a lot of scope for invention and a way of living that necessitates making up your own rules for survival. The second part takes place in Hong Kong between 1996 and 1997. This was a time when the city was returning from British Colonial rule to the motherland of China. But the politics in these written words are of the personal kind rather than of historical interest and inevitable inaccuracy. In fact its difficult to think of a less political narrative, which is one thing in its favour I would suppose. Hardly a Eulogy to immortality and featuring various chameleons parading under the guise of... dancing panda's, armed diplomats, absinthe drinkers, Converse aficionado’s, Russian gulag escapee’s, art fraudsters, lost souls, Americans abroad, South East Asian pirates, various renegades and Parisian opera-stars. All with their own agenda’s and encircling like sharks within the orbit of the main protagonist. The ideal scenario is for the book to fly low under the radar, picked up on the off chance.