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John Lanchester, 9 May 1991
The Redundancy of Courage
by Timothy Mo.
Chatto, 408 pp., £13.99, April 1990,0 7011 3748 7 Show More
by Timothy Mo.
Chatto, 408 pp., £13.99, April 1990,
“... and the character is a figure who is experiencing that juxtaposition at first hand. In The Monkey King (1978), Mo’s first novel, the meeting of worlds takes a deceptively domestic form – so much so, in fact, that one might have mistaken the author for a sort of half-Cantonese would-be Barbara Pym, a candidate member of the school of downbeat English ... ”