Last Year in Hong Kong A Love Story Author:Robert S. Elegant Robert Elegant's best-selling epics have sold millions of copies worldwide and won him immense critical acclaim. Now he returns to Hong Kong, the scene he knows better than any other living novelist with this long-awaited, beautifully crafted story about a doomed love affair set against Hong Kong's last months before its handover to China. Newly... more » divorced, Lucretia Barnes, relieved to be free of the husband who embodied all the worst characteristics of Hong Kong, is struggling to make ends meet and is wary of a new relationship. But when she meets Robbie, the astonishingly handsome and charming son of an English mother and a Tibetan father, there is an intense attraction. As their relationship develops, so too does Lucretia's sensitivity to the culture and the people of Hong Kong. Building to a shattering conclusion, this compelling love story displays the masterful storytelling skills that have made Robert Elegant one of the best-loved writers of our time.« less