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Overview
How does one write a preemptive eulogy for their hometown, a transient metropolis arriving at its last stop? Composed over a span of three months, Postscripts from a City Burning reassembles the embers left behind by the 2019 Hong Kong protests (and ultimately failed coup), weaving nostalgia, loss, and possible redemption into a time capsule of diaristic verse, photographs, dramatic monologues, and historical testimony. At once angry, despondent and unflinching, Sam Cheuk's second full-length collection offers up a microcosmic prelude of a city's smouldering ruin among many in a world marching to the heartbeat of increasingly authoritarian impulses.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781989287811
- ISBN-10: 1989287816
- Publisher: Anstruther Books
- Publish Date: September 2021
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.04 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.44 pounds
- Page Count: 80
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