Category: Douglas Kerr—Cha
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors, Canongate, 2023. 320 pgs. Third novels can be tricky. The second has to prove the first was not a fluke. Something more…
![[REVIEW] “Some Private Morsel of Your Own: Tan Twan Eng’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑠” by Douglas Kerr](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/the-house-of-doors-1.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Morning Early June in West London can be the best of times. Blue skies, a fresh breeze, the neighbourhood trees sporting thick shocks of leaves. That rattling sound is another magpie, strutting over the flat…
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Liu Yichang.Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on John Minford. John Minford (general editor), Hong Kong Literature Series, The Chinese University Press, 2020. If the library was on fire…
![[REVIEW] “We Shall Have to Learn How to Live with Ghosts: A Review of John Minford’s 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” by Douglas Kerr](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/hong-kong-literature-series-1.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Douglas Kerr, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Chan Ho-Kei (author), Jeremy Tiang (translator), The Borrowed, Head of Zeus, 2016. 496 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “A History of Hong Kong in Six Cases: Chan Ho-Kei’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑” by Douglas Kerr](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/the-borrowed-chan-ho-kei.jpg?w=600)
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