A HONG KONG boy has published an English novel of some 50000 words
The novel was included in Hong Kong’s book exhibition Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday
Xinhua said the boy Li Yupeng 11 finished the science fiction The Four Phoenixes in one year
Some 1000 copies of the book were printed and 200 copies had been sold — to the boy’s schoolmates
The boy’s father published the book at a cost of HK$30000 as a gift for the boy’s graduation from primary school
The book was about a hero’s adventure in the “Dark Age” The hero Koba took four “Phoenix swords” in the “Dark Age” to assassinate a warlord named Scaren Li said
Li began reading English cartoons at the age of six and had read nearly 500 English books said his mother He took only five hours to finish reading a Harry Potter novel which had more than 600 pages