Sunset at Lion Rock

Nobody in Eric's family talks about why photos of his Uncle Mikey are on every table, in every room. Years of silence, together with a relentless Buddhist upbringing, has Eric convinced he is Mikey's reincarnation. But when a summer in the mountain temples of Lion Rock Hill results in a crisis of faith, Eric is confused by his feelings of betrayal. His growing understanding of his place in Hong Kong society and the circumstances surrounding his uncle's disappearance compels him to question all that he has come to believe is true. And just like his uncle before him, Eric finds himself forced to choose between his family and himself.

SUNSET AT LION ROCK is a letter from a nephew to his uncle who died before he was born. It serves as a window into parts of a Eurasian child's life which his family can never know, documenting his attempt to navigate racial confusion, religious trauma, the meaning of friendship, and the struggle for self-discovery in a shifting culture on the eve of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China (PRO).

"A notably rewarding read from an obvious talent."
-Xu Xi 許素細, author of That Man in Our Lives

Love and loss share the same root in Sunset at Lion Rock. The narrator's passionate, searching voice takes us through the tug-of-war of a biracial and multicultural Hong Kong native, as he navigates the pain of understanding family decisions alongside his home city's complex history, as well as finding resolution, acceptance, and peace.
---Flora Qian, New York City, USA, author of South of the Yangtze, winner of the Proverse Prize 2022

Wong Foreman's Hong Kong is complexly nuanced, is existentially problematic, is much more real and multi-prismed than the English language can manage to imagine and construct. A flawed place, an ingenious place, a borrowed place, a tragic place, a magic place-an all too human, all too spirited-emporium of the past gasping through the present.
- Jason S Polley, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University; Jason S Polley, Wing Kin Vinton Poon, and Lian-Hee Wee (eds). Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong: Angles on a Coherent Imaginary. Palgrave, 2018.