Filth: Failed in London, Try Hong Kong

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And Eddie Feathers, or later in his life also known as Sir Edward Feathers, was one of the professional Brits landing up in the outposts of the British Empire. A reader of Old Filth, despite its unpromising title, will become passionately curious about such matters.

Careful reasoning on illustrious cases earns him a reputation at home and abroad and he is known to all by the sobriquet "Old Filth" (Failed in London, Try Hong Kong), a term usually reserved for a group of people.

Suraityta meistriškai, vis stebinanti naujais siužeto vingiais, neleidžianti snausti, nes plevenanti per skirtingus britų imperijos laikmečius. And if you can't make a success of things here, then in all probability you'll move on somewhere else. This mordantly funny novel examines the life of Sir Edward Feathers, a desiccated barrister known to colleagues and friends as Old Filth (the nickname stands for “Failed in London Try Hong Kong”). When you do that,” Old Filth would say—when they were young and he was still aware of her all the time—“your eyes are almond-shaped. At where I used to work, I know of a few fellas that might fit into the "FILTH" situation, but they are all hard working and respectful of Chinese culture (even if they do not necesarily like it).

Now an eighty-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life.Ich fand sowohl die Figuren als auch die Erzählweise spannend, denn es wird in Rückblicken, die aber immer wieder Lücken aufweisen, erzählt.