Ghetto at the Center of the World : Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2018) and Balthazar

and Balthazar

Here 'we can meet the writer full on' (Stephen Fry) as he opens our minds to the people he admires and the things he believes might just mean something - and makes room for us to join the conversation too

“Life often seems to defy logic

a physics professor

Taryn Simon

Ghetto at the Center of the World : Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2018) and BalthazarThere is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers from all over Asia and Africa live and work there even backpacking tourists