| A New Novel from Hong Kong Reminiscent of Borges and Calvino
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|  Atlas The Archaeology of an Imaginary City Dung Kai-cheung Translated by Dung Kai-cheung, Anders Hansson, and Bonnie S. McDougall Order Your Copy Now and Save 30%!
We'd like to offer you 30% discount Atlas. To save 30%, add the book to your shopping cart, and enter code ATLDU in the "Coupon Code" field at check out.* Browse the book | Read the preface and opening chapters | Read an interview with Dung Kai-Cheung Atlas is available as an e-book wherever e-books are sold. "A cross between fact and fiction, history and mystery, Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino, this work defies all generic categories and now stands as a contemporary classic." -- Leo Ou-fan Lee, author of City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong (Read more reviews)
Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections-"Theory," "The City," "Streets," and "Signs"-the novel reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing real-world scenarios with purely imaginary people and events while incorporating anecdotes and actual and fictional social commentary and critique.
Much like the quasi-fictional adventures in map-reading and remapping explored by Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino, Dung Kai-cheung's novel challenges the representation of place and history and the limits of technical and scientific media in reconstructing a history. It best exemplifies the author's versatility and experimentation, along with China's rapidly evolving literary culture, by blending fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a story about succeeding and failing to recapture the things we lose. Playing with a variety of styles and subjects, Dung Kai-cheung inventively engages with the fate of Hong Kong since its British "handover" in 1997, which officially marked the end of colonial rule and the beginning of an uncharted future.
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