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As her native Hong Kong seethes, torn between two world powers, Amber Fan tries to build a career as a chef in London’s Chinatown. 

Amber Fan, a young Oxford-educated chef, opens the first Chinese fusion joint in London’s Chinatown following the failure of her father’s traditional restaurant. When her parents decide to return to Hong Kong, taking with them their young son Bobby as well as the haunting secret surrounding his birth, Amber is left alone in London. That is, until a woman called Celeste hires out the restaurant, coughing up three grand for a dinner for one. Who is this extravagant stranger, and how did she get so wealthy?Set in the aftermath of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule, Goodbye Chinatown shows a family torn between two countries. Amber throws herself into her career to escape the painful cycle of family separations and reunions. The tastes and smells spark off every page in Kit Fan’s latest novel, making for a truly multisensorial reading experience. Offering a behind-the-scenes of this suburb of London’s hospitality economy, and using food to reflect on identity, Goodbye Chinatown paints a portrait of an enterprising émigré who, faced with divided loyalties, invents her own language for home through the culinary arts.

Kit Fan is a novelist, poet, and critic. He was born in Hong Kong and moved to the UK at the age of twenty-one. Kit Fan’s first novel, Diamond Hill, was published in 2021 by World Editions. His third poetry collection, The Ink Cloud Reader, was shortlisted for the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection. He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and has won the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize, Northern Writers Awards for Poetry and Fiction, Times Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize, and Poetry’s Editors Prize for Reviewing. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Vice-Chair of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, and Co-Chair of the Copyright Licensing Agency. Goodbye Chinatown is his second novel.