"If you follow the inflections in this book, you get some of Marcs lineage in language, but not all of it. He was born in Hong Kong to an English mother and a Swiss father, and he lived in Hong Kong during his early childhood, picking up his fluency in Cantonese by ear as he ran loose in the markets and streets of the city with his friends. His parents spoke English at home as his mother never learned the Swiss dialect his father spoke with his family, and he travelled around the world with his father before attending a Benedictine monastery school in Switzerland in German, while his sister went to ballet boarding school in England"--.