KIT FAN: GOODBYE CHINATOWN
About this Event
Join UK-based Hong Kong author, poet & critic KIT FAN as he takes us into the kitchen & inside the pages of his multisensory new WORLD EDITIONS novel of culture & culinary arts GOODBYE CHINATOWN.
Amber Fan, a young Oxford-educated chef, opens the first Chinese fusion joint in London's Chinatown following the failure of her father's traditional restaurant. When her parents decide to return to Hong Kong, taking with them their young son Bobby as well as the haunting secret surrounding his birth, Amber is left alone in London. set in the aftermath of Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule, GOODBYE CHINATOWN shows a family torn between two countries.
Amber throws herself into her career to escape the painful cycle of family separations and reunions. The tastes and smells spark off every page in Kit Fan's latest novel, making for a truly multisensorial reading experience. Offering a behind-the-scenes of this suburb of London's hospitality economy, and using food to reflect on identity, GOODBYE CHINATOWN paints a portrait of an enterprising emigre who, faced with divided loyalties, invents her own language for home through the culinary arts.
The event will be chaired by acclaimed writer & lecturer, SJ KIM.
KIT FAN is a poet, novelist and critic. He was born and educated in Hong Kong and now lives in the UK. His third poetry collection The Ink Cloud Reader (2023) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. His first novel is ‘Diamond Hill’ (2021).
This event forms part of our BORDERLESS SEASON—a programme of events celebrating language, literature in translation & ideas from around the globe.
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