“English-language readers might not find a book that more fully captures Hong Kong in such visceral detail and humanity as Cheung’s. “A powerful memoir of love and anguish in a cold financial capital with an underbelly of vibrant, freedom-loving youth.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Imprint: Books on Tape Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Cultural. witness the disappearance of the city they call home.” -Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy and Eat the Buddha An intimate look at Hong Kong by an ambivalent native who never. “An edgy, highly personal memoir about a generation. renders modern-day Hong Kong with evocative detail.” -Kat Chow, author of Seeing Ghosts Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction One of the best books of the year. In the book, she recounts fragments of her experience growing up in a city thats often.

“ums with wide-eyed discoveries and the lowest heartache, quiet intimacies and street-shaking roars, the thrill of being lost in this massive, haunted, mythologized, neon city, yet finding oneself in the end.” -Hua Hsu, author of A Floating Chinaman The Impossible City is Karen Cheungs love letter to Hong Kong. One of the best books of the year: the Washington Post and The Economist Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Her story is a welcome counterpart to narratives that portray Hong Kong as either as exotic or, more recently, as dystopian.

The impossible city by karen cheung