Price’s Price

Hong Kong International Literary Festival
  • Sat 13-11-2021 2:30 PM - 1 h

Fringe Underground


Free Admission

Synopsis

Stanley Price is an army officer who never wanted to come to Hong Kong, but who can never quite leave.  He falls for a lady but hasn’t the means to support her;  he moves from the army to government yet the high life remains beyond his reach; he starts a business, only to get sucked into one dicey deal after another.  A chance for escape arrives in an unlikely guise – or is it further entrapment?  The novel starts in the 1960s and follows Hong Kong’s transformation from an agrarian to an industrial society, from an indigenous to a refugee population and from a colonial backwater to a household name around the world.  Just as Stanley has to respond and adjust – sometimes even for the better – to fast-changing social mores, so too does Hong Kong.  Author Chris Maden arrived in Hong Kong at the end of the 1980s, when Hong Kong started to reinvent itself as a services hub.  At this launch event, Chris will chat with Cameron Dueck and explain his inspiration for the novel, his motivation in writing it, and why it has taken a quarter of a century to get from his first draft to the published work.
 
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Featuring
Chris Maden is the author of Price’s Price, a light-hearted romp set in colonial Hong Kong.
 
Cameron Dueck uses adventure travel to tell stories about fringe societies.
 
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