Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha

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Darkest Pollifax submitted by camelsamba on July 2, 2011, 9:14pm The most dark of the Mrs Pollifax books I've read. Not as much lyrical description of the landscape as in Golden Triangle - but I suppose that is in part because the setting is Hong Kong, very urban.

The penultimate chapter is quite compelling from a narrative perspective. Mrs P has been through the worst and final admits that her spirit is crushed, her hope is gone. A Mrs P without her indomitable spirit? Quite distressing for the reader - and the narrative style picks up on this. She has dissociated from her surroundings and the people around her, and you can sense that from the short, disconnected sentences.

Also an interesting diatribe against terrorists. Some people in America seem to think that international terrorism started in 2001 (or maybe 1995, with the OKC bombing), but it didn't.

When you finish this book, you get the sense that the Mrs Pollifax series is done - and you wouldn't be surprised if she hung up her passport for good. I wonder if Gilman intended to stop writing here? I'm glad she didn't, because then we wouldn't have Golden Triangle, which I think is my favorite Mrs P.

(Aside: the tracking bug they put on Mrs. Pollifax is referred to as an "ackameter." I assumed this was a real thing, but it got absolutely no hits in a google search!)