: Book Two of Anne Opotowsky's epic Walled City
Trilogy leaps simultaneously forward and back. In 1905, a child is
kidnapped and brought to Hong Kong, growing into a clever and reckless young man
looking for answers. In the 1930s, the British are shaping that island into the
freetrade playground for which it will soon become famous... while China's
internal strife borders on chaos. The eccentricities of Hong Kong rub off on
everyone, the greed is more palpable, the lust and caution ride herd on both the
young and old.
Within the Walled
City itself, the population has grown by leaps and bounds, despite attempts to
clear them out. Both the British and the Chinese now declare it a lawless
ghetto, a legal No Man's Land... so the city evolves into an astonishing world
of its own. In this chaotic yet harmonious world, the three boys from Book One
Song, Xi, and Yubo are finding three very different ways to become men.
Abductions, obsessions, refugees, and
starcrossed lovers intertwine throughout this staggeringly ambitious and
gorgeously illustrated saga... while the undercurrents of power, manipulation,
and loss begin to show terrible cracks in the
walls.
