So I sat down and listened to the bartender M talking about the legend of H city
So I sat down and listened to the bartender M talking about the legend of H city
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One night, amidst a rain of gunfire,
the warrior woman, hacked and disoriented, secretly connected with her strategist...
Black-eyed, she embraced his warm body, awaiting the descent of anomalies, while simultaneously recounting the ancient tales and doomsday legends of City H.
Literary critic and novelist Tam Yi-nok, with a decade of writing experience, continues to publish his second novel in a chaotic and absurd Hong Kong. In Tam Yi-nok's writing, City H might be a metaphor for Hong Kong, where bizarre and peculiar events subtly evoke a sense of déjà vu: residents who once lived on turtle shells later moved to land; some also drifted in from coffins; the Hua family made their fortune by cultivating mushrooms, searching for land suitable for mushroom cultivation in various mysterious areas of City H, allowing its people to "live and work in peace"... One by one, legends of prosperity quietly emerge in the metaphorical City H.
Borrowing from Dung Kai-cheung's words, the story of City H is thus: "For some reason, reading Tam Yi-nok's new novel immediately gave me a strong sense of an online virtual world. My first thought was SimCity. This might be due to the novel being filled with cities and regions represented by letters, as well as mountains, water, bridges, walls, railways, streets, and the imagination of 'planting houses.' Although all these pointers seem to have real-world foundations, they read with such a virtual flavor."
