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: Book Two of Anne Opotowsky's epic Walled CityTrilogy leaps simultaneously forward and back. In 1905, a child iskidnapped and brought to Hong Kong, growing into a clever and reckless young manlooking for answers. In the 1930s, the British are shaping that island into thefreetrade playground for which it will soon become famous... while China'sinternal strife borders on chaos. The eccentricities of Hong Kong rub off oneveryone, the greed is more palpable, the lust and caution ride herd on both theyoung and old. Within the WalledCity itself, the population has grown by leaps and bounds, despite attempts toclear them out. Both the British and the Chinese now declare it a lawlessghetto, a legal No Man's Land... so the city evolves into an astonishing worldof its own. In this chaotic yet harmonious world, the three boys from Book One Song, Xi, and Yubo are finding three very different ways to become men. Abductions, obsessions, refugees, andstarcrossed lovers intertwine throughout this staggeringly ambitious andgorgeously illustrated saga... while the undercurrents of power, manipulation,and loss begin to show terrible cracks in thewalls.