Kong Boys: Seven Friends from Hong Kong Take on Eleven European Cities for Their Thirtieth Birthdays
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Publisher Description
In summer 2006, twenty-year-old Gerald Yeung and his childhood friends from Hong Kong travel to South America and Africa on their parents' dime. Confronted by challenges foreign to their privileged upbringing, the "Wannabe Backpackers" persevere in their Christian Dior clothes. They make plans to do it again when they turn thirty. The decade that follows doesn’t go exactly to plan. Gerald chases the American Dream in a town of twenty thousand and subzero winters. Others pursue a fast-and-furious life in Hong Kong. They all experience failed relationships, career setbacks, and a decreasing ability to impress girls at clubs. The summer of their thirtieth birthdays, they hit the road again to fulfill a lifelong dream — the 2016 UEFA European Championship. Set during European soccer’s most anticipated event, Kong Boys traces a friendship that transcends distance, culture, and time, dovetailing the different trajectories of seven boys in a decade of changes in Hong Kong. Kong Boys is a celebration of youth, brotherhood, and a sport of incomparable beauty.
Customer Reviews
So Much More Than Soccer!
Kong Boys took me by surprise. Not only is it filled with the typical boys-will-be-boys goofiness, but it is also action-packed with travel adventures and heart felt moments.
It is not the travel memoir that I expected; through their inside jokes and lame gambling bets I uncovered their unspoken love (bromance) for each other. Even though they have been divided by continents and grown apart in terms of lifestyle, career development and just general adulting, it is evident that these seven friends are bounded together. I admire their love and friendship, and I can’t help but smile as they took me on their adventures.