coconut wind banana rain

"Coconut Wind and Banana Rain: A Collection of Nanyang Stories" collects the novellas, short stories and micro-novels written by Liu Yichang during the Nanyang period. It is the first time that they have been systematically compiled into a book. Previously, the works were only scattered in different Hong Kong editions, and the relevant editions are no longer available.

"If you have another ferry ticket, will you come with me ... " (movie "In the Mood for Love")

It was not only Chow Mo-wan who ran away by boat, but Liu Yichang himself also traveled from Hong Kong to Southeast Asia alone in the 1950s, where he worked as a newspaper editor in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Liu Laogeng projected this period of his own experience onto Zhang Panming, the male protagonist of "Singapore Story" at the beginning of the book. This reporter from a foreign land, who was nicknamed by his newspaper colleagues as a "scenery wanderer", was not only attracted by the local delicacies of the Lion City, but also met Bai Ling, a local singing star by chance (yes, the same character was also used in the movie "2046" name). Coconut rain falls on a pair of uninhibited poets and a beautiful lady in the Lion City, and a Wong Kar-Wai-style romantic chatter is about to take place ...