{"product_id":"book-talk-horizon-hong-kong-by-xu-xi","title":"Book Talk | Horizon Hong Kong by Xu Xi","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003ePre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! This helps ensure that everyone who wants a book goes home with one, in case we sell out at the event. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE BOOK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA siren call to Hong Kong’s yesterday, today, and tomorrow, envisioned by one of the city’s most prescient and unapologetic writers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of Hong Kong’s leading English writers, Xu Xi investigates and invigorates the transnational, transcultural, and translingual dimensions of her beloved city in these 22 stories covering the 1960s to the present day. Written against the backdrop of tremendous political change—from Hong Kong’s transformation from a British colony to a Chinese Special Administrative Region in 1997 to the political turmoil of the 2014 Occupy Hong Kong protests and the 2019 Polytechnic University occupation—Xu’s stories capture the intimate realities of lives led and choices made under the shadow of a city that looms large in our imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cast of idiosyncratic local and expatriate characters navigates what it means to love, leave, and return again and again to their home city: a young girl obsesses over an orange-haired lady from Chung King Mansion; a massage therapist practices English with a client; a woman appeals to reinstate her American work visa or face deportation; a man reluctantly attends his high school's thirty-fifth reunion dinner; and monkeys are appointed academic residency at the local university.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHorizon Hong Kong\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edemonstrates the power and range of Xu Xi’s oeuvre, its stories Hong Kong’s and also the world’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE AUTHORS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descriptionPanel___wCiv7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panelContent___B_vGb\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eXu Xi 許素細\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/xuxiwriter.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/xuxiwriter.com\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1781030679156000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw0I3GduAvCgw5Tx9GWte0Es\" target=\"_blank\"\u003exuxiwriter.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, an Indonesian-Chinese-American from Hong Kong, has published sixteen books—five novels, nine prose collections, one memoir, one coauthored textbook—and edited four anthologies of English Hong Kong literature. Her recent titles include \u003cem\u003eMonkey in Residence and Other Speculations \u003c\/em\u003e(2022), \u003cem\u003eThis Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being \u003c\/em\u003e(2019), \u003cem\u003eDear Hong Kong: An Elegy for a City\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), the novel \u003cem\u003eThat Man in Our Lives\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), and the textbook \u003cem\u003eThe Art and Craft of Asian Stories\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descriptionPanel___wCiv7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"acc-font-no-hover medium-small-font bold descriptionHeader___aNBPJ\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MuiGrid-root MuiGrid-container css-1b1jvye\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MuiGrid-root MuiGrid-container css-1b1jvye\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIN CONVERSATION WITH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MuiGrid-root MuiGrid-container css-1b1jvye\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MuiGrid-root MuiGrid-container css-1b1jvye\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Anthony Siegel\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of a memoir, Criminals, and two novels, All Will Be\u003cbr\u003eRevealed, and All the Money in the World. His work has appeared in The New York Times,\u003cbr\u003eSmithsonian, The Paris Review, The Drift, The Oxford American, and Ploughshares, among other places, and has been anthologized in Best American Essays 2023, O. Henry Stories 2014, and Pushcart Prize XXXVI. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan, a Mombukagakusho Fellow in Japan, a Paul Engle Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and a Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at Hawthornden Brooklyn.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yu \u0026 Me Books","offers":[{"title":"Book w\/Ticket","offer_id":49501323854053,"sku":"Xu Xi Event 07.30.26","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"FREE RSVP","offer_id":49501323886821,"sku":"Xu Xi Event 07.30.26","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/2581\/1941\/files\/07.30.26XuXi.png?v=1780944890","url":"https:\/\/yuandmebooks.com\/products\/book-talk-horizon-hong-kong-by-xu-xi","provider":"Yu \u0026 Me Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}