Sour Sweet

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}{{Short description|1982 novel by Timothy Mo}} {{infobox book |  | name = Sour Sweet | image = File:Sour Sweet (Mo novel).jpg | caption = First edition | author = Timothy Mo | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = Fiction, Black comedy | publisher = André Deutsch | release_date = 1982 | english_release_date = | media_type = | pages = | isbn = 0-233-97365-6 }} '''''Sour Sweet''''' is a 1982 novel by Timothy Mo. 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<ref>{{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 }}</ref> London.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> It was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for 1982, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.<ref name="BritCounLit">{{cite web|url=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/timothy-mo|title=Timothy Mo British Council Literature|work=British Council|accessdate=9 July 2015}}</ref>

==Film adaptation==

The novel was filmed as ''Soursweet'' in 1988. Mike Newell directed. Novelist Ian McEwan wrote the script.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096146/|title=Soursweet}}</ref>

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Category:1982 British novels Category:Fiction set in the 1960s Category:British novels adapted into films Category:Hawthornden Prize–winning works Category:Novels set in London Category:André Deutsch books