THE MAN IN THE WOODEN HAT By Jane Gardam Europa Editions ... Servants were his family and his only friend was a bizarre Chinese dwarf named Albert Ross, sometimes facetiously called “Albertross ...

Edward and Elizabeth meet in Hong Kong, and Gardam beautifully evokes the post-war period when the English try to live as if in the heyday of Empire, to the amused indifference of the Chinese.

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