The Year of the Shanghai Shark - Mo Zhi Hong
Penguin Group (NZ), ISBN 978-014300-893-4, $28.00 pbk
This is a sophisticated story of China’s new generation severing ties with their cultural past, rich with a fascinating array of colourful characters who frequent their inner-city apartment block. Hai Long is a teenager and as we meet a series of colourful characters in Hai Long’s life, we also watch him being trained in the ways of the pick-pocket.
