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Blonde Lotus

Cecilie Gamst Berg

"Book of the Month"
— RTHK Radio 3, Hong Kong

"5 stars"
— Norway's leading national newspaper

"Cecilie shares her unique perspective of China in a hilarious and sometimes poignant manner. How much of it is her own story can  be left to the imagination, but, as I have learnt since I have known her, Cecilie's truth is always stranger than fiction!"
— Sarah Passmore, host of Naked Lunch, RTHK Radio 3

"Cecilie Gamst Berg's shrewd insights into the Chinese world are delivered with considerable wit, flavored with a strong dash of spice."
— Steve Vines, writer and founding publisher, Spike magazine

A hilarious novel set in China and Hong Kong. Norwegian Kat Glasø runs away from the snow and moustaches that plague her homeland, she accidentally ends up in China, where her life-long suspicion of having been born in the wrong country is confirmed once and for all.


"A refreshingly unserious book of an infectiously upbeat young woman who, lost in China and unsure of what to do with her life, in advertently ends up making a new, better one for herself by embracing the country... in more ways than one."—Tom Carter, Urbanatomy.com
"Fill of entertaining passages and wry quips - great for the blog-friendly generation."—Dominique Rowe, HK Magazine

Visit Cecilie Gamst Berg's 'China Droll' blog

Want to learn Cantonese from Cecilie? Listen to her on RTHK's Naked Cantonese or watch her Cantocourse on YouTube.


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  • HK$145
  • ISBN 978-988-98819-2-4
  • Paperback
  • 13cm x 19.4cm
  • 385 pp
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