Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan

Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan

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.

Kit Fan is a novelist, poet and critic. His first novel, also published by World Editions, is Diamond Hill (2021). Goodbye Chinatown is his second novel. His third poetry collection, The Ink Cloud Reader (2023), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and was a winner of the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize, Northern Writers Awards for Poetry and Fiction, Times/Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize and POETRY's Editors Prize for Reviewing. He has written for the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and Telegraph. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Vice-Chair of Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and Co-Chair of the Copyright Licensing Agency(CLA). He was born and educated in Hong Kong and now lives in the UK.

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ISBN 13	9781642861655
ISBN 10	1642861650
Title	Goodbye Chinatown
Author	Kit Fan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	World Editions
Year published	2026-06-02
Number of pages	296
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.