Marvels of a Floating City
By Xi Xi
1997
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4.06
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106
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A collection of Xi Xi's short fiction on life in the turbulent and fascinating Hong Kong of the 1980s.
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Author
Xi Xi
Author · 4 books
Xi Xi (Chinese name: 西西) was born in Shanghai in 1937 and moved to Hong Kong in 1950. She is one of the most acclaimed writers in the Sinophone world. Hailed by critics as a major and unique voice in global Sinophone literature and a stylistic innovator across genres, she has published more than 30 books of different genres in addition to newspaper and magazine columns and screenplays. Xi Xi is the winner of the 6th Newman Prize for Chinese Literature in 2019.
