City Like Water

A potent and disorienting new book by the author of Owlish, a National Book Critics Circle prize finalist

Dorothy Tse is a Hong Konger writer and the author of Owlish, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, and Snow and Shadow, which was long-listed for the Best Translated Book Award. She has received the Hong Kong Book Prize, the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature, and Taiwan's Unitas New Fiction Writers' Award. She is the cofounder of the literary journal Fleurs des Lettres. Natascha Bruce translates fiction from Chinese. Her recent work includes Owlish by Dorothy Tse, Mystery Train by Can Xue, and Lake Like a Mirror by Ho Sok Fong. After several years in Hong Kong, she now lives in Amsterdam.