"Sweat & the City is an outstanding collection of Hong Kong short stories that inspires the budding writer and rewards readers." South China Morning Post.

 

"This anthology is an original, seeking to collect the multiple unique instances that compose this inimitable, post-colonial, global, Anglo-Chinese metropolis, screened through English, but always identifiable as only in Hong Kong. It offers humour, pathos, satire, fantasy; and the fantasies of fast living in the big, bad, fast Hong Kong lane tell us as much about the nature of humdrum work and its relation to social desire as about anything real in hong Kong. i look forward to a growing chorus of fiction and poetry, rising to the symphonic sweep this great city deserves."

 

Shirley Geok-lin Lim, author of Joss and Gold, and Sister Swing.

 

"Sweat & The City" is an outstanding collection of Hong Kong short stories that inspires the budding writer and rewards readers." 4 stars! South China Morning Post, May 7th, 2006.

 

The review goes on to say:

 

"Debutant writer and lawyer Peter Gregoire's "House of Cards" is a simple and convincing tale of financial revenge that takes an obvious storytelling technique based on themotive of greed and spins it into a marvelous story.

 

Writers' Circle veteran Lawrence Gray, with shades of Haruki Murakami, does The Devil's Work with skill. The story is about a lawyer-turned-bluesman torn between "making money out of human frailty and greed" and seeking Hong Kong's soul.

 

In The Playground, Hong Kong born Jane Wallace conveys in the spare monologue of an amah the realities of her life and her complicity in the lives of others.

 

Similarly, Janna Cawrse captures in The Attendant some sharp pbservations about the cultural fiscal divide papered over by the pretences of respectability that money tries to buy.

 

Still, money has its price, as does complicity- and Auditing and Audacity, by Diana McPartlin, exposes as a cheap veneer the quality of corporate respectability touted by the likes of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, a body that seems to attract mockery and mirth in quite a few stories in Sweat."

 

 

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