By Kai-cheung Dung,Anders Hansson,Bonnie S. McDougall
Set within the long-lost urban of Victoria (a fictional global just like modern day Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified point of view of destiny archaeologists suffering to rebuild an exhilarating city. Divided into 4 sections—theory,” the city,” streets,” and signs”—Dung’s novel reimagines Victoria via maps and different old records and artifacts, very like Italo Calvino’s, Jorge Luis Borges’s, and Paul Auster’s quasi-fictional adventures in map-reading and remapping. blending real-world eventualities with in simple terms invented humans and occasions, and incorporating anecdote and genuine and fictional social observation and critique, Dung’s novel demanding situations the illustration of position and heritage and the bounds of technical and medical media in reconstructing that background. twiddling with a number of types and matters, Dung creatively engages with the destiny of Hong Kong for the reason that its British handover” in 1997, which formally marked the top of colonial rule and the start of an uncharted future.
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