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Hallucination in Hong Kong Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Rohan Quine (Author, Narrator, Publisher)
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In Hallucination in Hong Kong by Rohan Quine, sliding from joy to nightmare and back, a plane flight frames a journey into Jaymi’s and Angel’s polarised identities and perceptions, where past and present merge in an obsessive fantasy of love, death, horror, and apocalyptic beauty.

As their plane takes off, Jaymi is warmed by the presence of his beloved friend Angel beside him. They are bound for Hong Kong, to perform a grand concert of unearthly music from a stage set high on the Peak. Jaymi starts to doze...and enters a fog of horror in seeming to remember that this concert lies in their distant past, not their imminent future: it happened nine years ago, and straight after that triumphant occasion there occurred unexpected disaster and the permanent catatonia of Angel. Those terrible events were rendered all the more poignant by the idyllic chapter they had experienced upon first meeting and falling in love, which he now recalls in great detail.

In reality (it would seem), Jaymi is on this flight alone, on a mission to put a compassionate end to Angel’s life, in view of his continued catatonia. And in an atmosphere of escalating nightmare and disjunction, incongruously set against the beauty of night-time Hong Kong as seen from the Peak and the Midlevels, this grim mission of euthanasia is accomplished - perhaps. That nightmare atmosphere is magnified by the obsessive flicker of Jaymi’s mind through complex permutations of his own possible guilt at betraying Angel, and the latter’s possible knowledge of this guilt...because hadn’t there actually been a mirror on the ceiling above the bench where Angel lay supine years ago, unnoticed by Jaymi at the time but in fact revealing to Angel certain things about Jaymi’s movements that he hadn’t known Angel could see?

Sliding from joy to nightmare, then back to a joy stained by the flavour of vanishing nightmare, Hallucination in Hong Kong explores those hellish possible events lying beneath the surface of our present and future, always ready to break through into reality if they become so inclined. In this journey, it conjures up from Jaymi’s and Angel’s polarised identities and perceptions an obsessive fantasy of dark androgyny, ironic horror, and apocalyptic beauty.

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  1. Listening Length
    1 hour and 47 minutes
  2. Author
    Rohan Quine
  3. Narrator
    Rohan Quine
  4. Audible release date
    November 7, 2019
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Rohan Quine
  7. ASIN
    B0813QNNWZ
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 1 hour and 47 minutes
Author Rohan Quine
Narrator Rohan Quine
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date November 07, 2019
Publisher Rohan Quine
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B0813QNNWZ

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  • Sheri A. Wilkinson
    3.0 out of 5 stars Hallucination in Hong Kong
    Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2014
    Jaymi and Angel (who was once Scorpio) are featured in Hallucination in Hong Kong. It is a story of love, obsession and betrayal. Angel is haunted by his past, so haunted that Jaymi is not sure how to handle him. She is determined to end his agony and despair one way or another. While on this mission soon the past and present become one and anything goes.

    At time the story was confusing. But the writing is unique as well as the story line. I did find myself compelled to continue reading to see how the story unfolds. Rohan Quine has a writing style that I feel readers will either love or hate. I suggest all four of his novellas.

    *This book was a gift.
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