
Three Years in Exile : A real-life story with 139 sketches
Fong So
Published -
Genre - Fiction: special features
Format - Paperback
The author's exile started in late September 2020, three months after the imposition of the draconian National Security Law in Hong Kong. It was the time of a global pandemic - the outbreak and spreading of the deadly Covid-19. After uprooting himself from Hong Kong, he has experienced hardship and difficulties. While struggling to adapt to a life in a different environment with limited means, he spent his spare time recording what he had encountered in the form of sketches.�In three years, he first stayed in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then relocated to London. Moving repeatedly in London, he came up with the idea of compiling a book, a pictorial album, with his sketches. Explanatory notes were written to accompany the sketches, recalling mainly what he felt while compiling them, and are included in this book.�Over the past few years, half a million Hongkongers have left their home city, and more than 200,000 have come to the UK. Many of them might have experienced much more hardship than the author/artist and will easily relate their experience to his story.
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