INTERVIEW Investment in the Track of Prostitution In 1994, Macau served of scene a tragic history of the real life, those capable ones to make manchetes of all the periodicals: a lawyer celebre of Hong Kong became here loving of a Russian, beautiful prostitute as none another one, and both they would appear assassinated later, in Vladivostoque. Eric Stone, journalist today based in Los Angeles, wrote its first novel in lathe of this event. Of return now to neighboring territory to participate in the Literary Festival of Hong Kong, Stone spoke to the END POINT on its work and explained why the Macau understands to be private a more shining future of the one than to the old one British colonia. Eric Stone is for times nostalgic to only think about Macau, a land that he visited with frequency in years 90, when he lived in Hong Kong. Happily, a small macaense restaurant about 20 minutes exists, of car, of its house in Los Angeles, where if it can give to the pleasure of to remember the flavors and the aromas of the gastronomia of Macau, exactly being sufficiently far of the original. The original, the true experience of Macau, is not only responsible for very good memories but also, in great part, for the launching of its first novel, The Living Room of the Dead (2005), very received well for the critical one. This end-of-week, Stone was with others two writers in palco of theater of the Fringe Club, good close to Lan Kwai Fong, between black curtains e under the intent look of the chambers of the RTHK, before a composed hearing in the majority for expatriated, sedentos of information on as to write one romance. However, what it finished for being more interesting in the words of this old financial periodical publisher, was the interrelation that he looked to demonstrate between prostitution and the foreign investment occidental person. Prostitution, and over all the side of human traffic that it is associate, and a certain way of life, of some esbanjamento, that would be rule for the lawyer of Hong tragicamente deceased Kong, is the point of departure of the history that Stone brings until Macau. Stone concluded, in the 11 years where it rambled for the Asian continent in it searchs of good news articles of financial nature, that if can "discover the destination of the foreign investment occidental person seeing for where they go prostitutes ". A tailandes producer gave as example whose customers if they very worried little about the fact to be able to buy the same goods prices lower noutros countries of the region, but did not excuse prostitutes of Thailand, a little to the similarity of that she also happens in the Phillipino. Feminine prostitution, and in particular the resultant of the meat traffic human being, was a subject on which Stone made question to write, if to lean over on "the expatriated attitude of the face to prostitution", therefore is one subject little argued and rare sees somebody being "absolutely honest "on it. The result was to thriller and not a work of inquiry journalism because he was "more amused", even so the writer if it hurries to point out that history "follows of very close" the events truthful. It does not look for to take the readers to the discovery of who killed, before preferring to insist on the one that if must prevent in terms of behavior. As it says, "not ' whodunit ', to rather the ' Dont't of it '". The history of the funny novel around a journalist whom it looks to help one colleague who if got passionate for a Russian prostitute and decides to follow it it Vladivostoque, in the savage far-east Siberian, a trip of tragic consequencias. Stone explains that always it intrigued it the history of the tragic end of Gary Alderdice, lawyer who was in Hong Kong a celebrity, and confesses that she was it who he motivated it to write on prostitution in the region. It says that it it especially interests "the expatriated attitude of the face prostitution" e to write on the underlying masculine egoism to the satisfaction of its desires for forced women who are to this. After the compliments and salamaleques of the custom, and the autographs that not if they had drawn out ad eternum because the available copies of the novel had finished for depleting, we sat down with the writer in a sossegada table of the Fringe, proper it now each emptier time and delivers proper itself. Even so Stone if complains that the "physical abuse" that the journalists inflict it nothing good augura of in relation to its longevity, the truth is that it does not seem to have 53 years. It speaks quickly and without hesitations, in a always more alive tone when the subject is Macau. It knew the territory of a closer form in 1990-91, when it covered all and each one of its streets, throughout weeks, to be able to write a tourist guide on Macau. For this height and in sets of ten of posterior visits, were apercebeu of that it had been gotten passionate for its images and cheiros: "it is a fascinating, full small farm of history e terrivelmente subvalorizado ", says us before describing Macau as" one of the places extraordinariest of the world in visual terms, in existing contrasts between the architectures Chinese and European ". It was in Hong Kong that lived and is has years consolidated in Los Angeles. But it affirms without any hesitation: "I do not have homesicknesses to come the Hong Kong, I have homesicknesses to go the Macau ". Stone says that its visits the Macau started, invariavelmente, for one ticket for the Garden of Lou Lim Ieoc, of where it followed for the quarter of S. Lazarus, Cortaleza of the Mount and Street of the Happiness, that he describes as ' city-China ' where one venda of foods can be found in each esquina. The landings following were the restaurant the Lorcha and the Museum Marine. Stone says to have found the very same stroll "still charming" that it gave has days. In its blog wrote that it had been especially happy for having reencontrado the tranquilidade in a very familiar place of Coloane, the restaurant Fernando, "so calm and delicious as always, still one of the best restaurants of the world, in its half environment lunatic ". The writer does not leave, however, to make some commentaries less likeable on the evolution of Macau and its landscape, since its last visit in 2000. It speaks today with some disdain of the trend existing to copy Las Vegas and it recognizes to have recently described the volcano of the Dock berth of the Fishing as "a false mountain that more seems one bosta placed in the neighborhood of horrenda glass facade and neon of new Sands hotel ". More to the front, it still did not leave to notice, are "ones inenarraveis buildings of offices ". It has advanced: changing of the tourist register complaining occidental person for the one of one journalist specialized in economy, Stone said that the news infrastructures - not only the casinos - allow to foresee a future prosperous for Macau - and not only for its casinos. It is in equipment destined to the sector of the conferences that sees greater potential of growth for the economy of Macau. With new hotels, the airport, game, raparigas and now also the business of the conventions, "the sky is limit ", guarantees. Macau is to reinventar itself and obtains to make it of the one more easily than Hong Kong because it is poor and he is next to the Chinese Continent, says Stone. "the central government", explains, "feeds little suspicion in relation the Macau of that the Hong Kong ". Unconditional admirer of Macau, Stone is well more pessimistic how much Hong Kong, due to its persistent refusal in accepting the decline of its port industry and of its sobrevalorizados, according to it) services financiers who do not have more place here. "For the world of the finances, geographic localization left of being important ", concludes. Author: Robert Carroll in Hong Kong