Shanghai Boy

by Stevan Eldred-Grigg

  NOVELS

  Oracles and Miracles

  The Siren Celia

  The Shining City

  Gardens of Fire

  My History, I Think

  Mum

  Blue Blood

  Kaput!

  Sheng Xian Qi Ji

  HISTORIES

  A Southern Gentry

  A New History of Canterbury

  Pleasures of the Flesh

  New Zealand Working People

  The Rich: a New Zealand History

  Xin Xilan de Wenxue Lucheng

  Copyright

  National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

  Eldred-Grigg, Stevan, 1952-

  Shanghai boy / by Stevan Eldred-Grigg.

  ISBN-13: 978-1-86941-793-2

  ISBN-10: 1-86941-793-3

  I. Title

  NZ823.2—dc 22

  A VINTAGE BOOK

  published by

  Random House New Zealand

  18 Poland Road, Glenfield, Auckland, New Zealand

  www.randomhouse.co.nz

  First published 2006

  © 2006 Stevan Eldred-Grigg

  The moral rights of the author have been asserted

  ISBN-13: 978 1 86941 793 2

  ISBN-10: 1 86941 793 3

  Text design: Elin Bruhn Termannsen

  Cover design: Katy Yiakmis

  Cover photograph: Getty Images

  Printed in Australia by Griffin Press