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City Like Water

Dorothy Tse

Natascha Bruce

  • Translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce.
  • The latest work of fiction from one of Hong Kong’s most exciting contemporary writers and author of Owlish.
  • Told in a series of vignettes, City Like Water is a surreal elegy for the political death of Hong Kong.
  • Comps: Owlish by Dorothy Tse, tr. Natascha Bruce; Five Spice Street by Can Xue, tr. Karen Gernant and Zeping Cheng; The Lost Children of Tokyo by Yoko Tawada, tr. Margaret Mitsutani.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : MAR 12, 2026
  • Imprint : Fitzcarraldo Editions
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  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781804272282
  • Price : INR 1,299
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Dorothy Tse

Dorothy Tse is a writer from Hong Kong. Her debut novel, Owlish, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, and her short story collection, Snow and Shadow, was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. A cofounder of the literary journal Fleurs des Lettres, she has received the Hong Kong Book Prize, the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature, and Taiwan’s Unitas New Fiction Writers’ Award.

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