Mr Ma and Son - Lao She Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges'

Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires

A series of drawings made by a young woman before her death

is at once a coming-of-age novel

the cosy Tokyo café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: The father who could not allow his daughter to get married

the boy is increasingly

Mr Ma and Son - Lao She Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges'Newly arrived from China, Mr Ma and his son Ma Wei run an antiques shop nestled by St Paul's Cathedral, where they try to make a living amid the smog and bustle of 1920s London. As they struggle with money, misunderstandings and the ways of the English from the overbearing patronage of missionary Reverend Ely to their well meaning landlady Mrs Weddeburn and her carefree daughter can understanding, even love, blossom? Both a moving story of the Chinese