Timothy Mo è un romanziere anglo-cinese la cui opera si distingue per l'esplorazione del suo intrecciato patrimonio culturale britannico e cinese. La sua scrittura si addentra spesso in temi di identità e appartenenza, riflettendo le sue stesse esperienze nel navigare un background multiculturale. Mo crea narrazioni con un occhio attento ai dettagli dei personaggi e un linguaggio ricco, offrendo ai lettori profonde intuizioni sulle complessità delle relazioni umane e dei cambiamenti sociali. Il suo stile letterario è apprezzato per il suo approccio sfumato e la sua capacità di cogliere sottili distinzioni culturali.
An Indonesian island is hastily given independence, and a Chinese-educated homosexual who was born on the island returns from his Canadian university to find his life radically altered. The story, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, represents an account of a post-colonial disaster.
At the centre of 1960s London the busy Chinese community lives by its own precise and violent rules, flourishing like a spiky, brilliant crystal garden in the murky waters of Soho. Pitched into an alien city which is neither hostile nor friendly but very strange and very foreign, the Chen family prospers by deftly and sometimes incongruously blending tradition and opportunity. But no private family lives beyond the reach of the largest and most powerful Chinese ‘family’ - the Triad.
The author of the acclaimed Sour Sweet presents a sweeping historical novel about corruption and greed, class, race, love and treachery set in Macao and Canton before and during the Opium Wars of the 19th century. Nominated for England's prestigious Booker Prize.