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SEBASTIAN GERARD, as you should know by now, is the pen name that I use for fiction writing or other pursuits not assocated with my academic profile.  It consists of the given names of my two grandfathers.

This is Sebastian Gerard's first full-length work of fiction, a 485 page novel that will first be released in Hong Kong in March 2008, which is where the novel is set, and then will have a subsequent release in the U.S.

FOR GOODNESS SAKE takes its inspiration from the 1960 movie, The World of Suzi Wong, which starred Nancy Kwan and William Holden, and became somewhat of an iconic story of Hong Kong and intercultural relations between East and West.  This story speculatively delves into what it commonly referred to as the "back story" of Suzie Wong's world of prostitution in Hong Kong at the time, and brings that story to the contemporary period, on the eve of the "handover" of Hong Kong to PR China.

It is the first-person narrative of an American Professor doing research in Hong Kong, who, owing to the coincidence of several events, among them his discovery of a mysterious painting (realized by Hong Kong painter Fong So for the cover, opposite), that leads to surprising connections, including his own love affair with a Chinese woman.  As the jacket of the book states:  "It is the story of a iconic movie, an exotic city, a captivating woman, and a man who fell in love with all of them."

 

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