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In Dorothy Tse’s chilling City Like Water, Hong Kong cannot remember itself
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Hong Kong writer Dorothy Tse's latest book City Like Water is a surrealist novella in which a Hong Kong-like city is inundated with water.
PHOTOS: ASIA LITERARY AGENCY, GRAYWOLF PRESS
By Dorothy Tse; translated by Natascha Bruce
Fiction/Graywolf Press/Paperback/112 pages/$29.95
In this waterlogged city besieged by everyday and unnameable violence, the sound of a leaking tap is mistaken for the blast from an execution.
