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词条 Sour Sweet
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  1. Film adaptation

  2. References

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| author = Timothy Mo
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| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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| genre = Fiction, Black Comedy
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Sour Sweet is a novel by Timothy Mo first published in 1982.

Written as a 'sour sweet' comedy the story follows the tribulations of a Hong Kong Chinese immigrant and his initially reluctant wife as they attempt to make a home for themselves in 1960s[1] London.[2] It was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for 1982, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.[3]

Film adaptation

The novel was filmed as Soursweet in 1988. Mike Newell directed. Novelist Ian McEwan wrote the script.[4]

References

1. ^{{cite book |title=The Cambridge history of twentieth-century English literature |last=Marcus |first=Laura |author2=Peter Nicholls |year=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=744 }}
2. ^{{cite book |title=Defining new idioms and alternative forms of expression |chapter=Acculturation and family structure: Mo's Sour Sweet, Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills|last=Mergenthal |first=Silvia |editor=Eckhard Breitinger |year=1996 |publisher=Rodopi |page=119 }}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/timothy-mo|title=Timothy Mo British Council Literature|work=British Council|accessdate=9 July 2015}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096146/|title=Soursweet}}
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5 : 1982 British novels|1960s in fiction|British novels adapted into films|Hawthornden Prize-winning works|Novels set in London

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