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A rapid-fire debut with a cinematographer's eye for detail, Diamond Hill interrogates fate, memory and redemption at a filmic velocity befitting its setting in Hong Kong's former Hollywood. Fan strikes a deft balance between agile set-pieces and lingering beauty' Naoise Dolan'Diamond Hill breathes beauty . . . Kit Fan skilfully weaves a story of loss and of being lost, a story of tragic mistakes, which haunts the reader long after the final pa...

The price of development and the burden of lossIt is 1987 and three years since Britain signed the Joint Declaration agreeing to hand over its last colony, Hong Kong, to China in 1997. With that declaration comes the promise that the city will remain unchanged for fifty years. But upheaval is already happening in Diamond Hill. Once the 'Hollywood of the Orient, ' it is now a shanty town and an eyesore right in the middle of a glitzy financial ...

Set in the last shanty town of Hong Kong before the fraught 1997 handover from Britain to China, Diamond Hill follows the return of a recovering heroin addict, Buddha, as he tries to salvage what's left from a place he hoped to forget.Diamond Hill was once the 'Hollywood of the Orient', butisnow an eyesore in the middle of a glitzy financial hub. Buddhist nuns, drug gangs, property developers, the government and foreign powersare all vying for...

Set in the last shanty town of Hong Kong before the fraught 1997 handover from Britain to China, Diamond Hill follows the return of a recovering heroin addict, Buddha, as he tries to salvage what's left from a place he hoped to forget.Diamond Hill was once the 'Hollywood of the Orient', butisnow an eyesore in the middle of a glitzy financial hub. Buddhist nuns, drug gangs, property developers, the government and foreign powersare all vying for...

Kit Fan's As Slow As Possible is a book of changes, of unlikely bridges between far-flung places and times, a collection of shape-shifting, trans-migrant poems that travel across geographies and time zones. Divided into three parts, the book weaves back and forwards between East and West, past and present, art and memory.

Kit Fan's As Slow As Possible is a book of changes, of unlikely bridges between far-flung places and times, a collection of shape-shifting, trans-migrant poems that travel across geographies and time zones. Divided into three parts, the book weaves back and forwards between East and West, past and present, art and memory.

Kit Fan's award-winning first book of poems establishes him as one of the most promising new writers on the Hong Kong literary scene and one of the most original and compelling new voices in English-language poetry, with an exciting sense of poetic form and brilliantly eclectic range of international subjects.