Cantonese Love Stories: Twenty-Five Vignettes of a City (Penguin Specials: The Hong Kong Series)

Dung Kai-cheung

$9.95

Publication Date: October 1st, 2017

Publisher:

Penguin Australia

ISBN:

9780734399410

Pages:

100

Description

A collection of 25 narrative sketches, Cantonese Love Stories offers an intimate look into the cultural, commercial, and romantic milieu of Hong Kong in the 1990s. Two lovers ruminate on the power of their photo booth stickers to keep them together. Peach-pocket Girl reads stolen love letters at a café. Pui Pui knows a Portuguese egg tart is authentic if she dreams of riding a boat-like egg tart. Each character inhabits a different corner of Hong Kong’s dreamscape; together they bring to life Dung Kai-cheung’s imaginative vision of the city.

About the Author

Dung Kai-cheung is an award-winning fiction writer, playwright and essayist born and based in Hong Kong. He is the author of numerous works, including Atlas: The Archeology of an Imaginary City and Histories of Time.

Praise for Cantonese Love Stories: Twenty-Five Vignettes of a City (Penguin Specials: The Hong Kong Series)

"Dung’s experimental prose and philosophic language games will appeal to readers of Italo Calvino, Jorge Louis Borges, and Paul Auster, and will find camaraderie here." —Los Angeles Review of Books

"For the past two decades, Dung Kai-cheung's voice has been the single most innovative on the Hong Kong literary scene." —Michael Berry, author, A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film and Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers

"Well worth the experiment." —Asian Review of Books

"Dung Kai-Cheung is Hong Kong’s greatest novelist." —Three Percent