Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City [Audiobook] download free by Kai Cheung Dung
- Listen audiobook: Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City
- Author: Kai Cheung Dung
- Release date: 2012/5/28
- Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780231161008
- Rating: 7.24 of 10
- Votes: 316
- Review by: Jemma Goodrich
- Review rating: 7.25 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/22
- Duration: 2H20M30S in 256 kbps (38.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-25
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MP3, MPEG4, AAC, WAV, WMA (compression TZO, ZIP, CBZ, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 192
- Includes a PDF summary of 20 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 15M45S (4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections-'Theory,' 'The City,' 'Streets,' and 'Signs'-the novel reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing real-world scenarios with purely imaginary people and events while incorporating anecdotes and actual and fictional social commentary and critique. Much like the quasi-fictional adventures in map-reading and remapping explored by Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino, Dung Kai-cheung's novel challenges the representation of place and history and the limits of technical and scientific media in reconstructing a history. It best exemplifies the author's versatility and experimentation, along with China's rapidly evolving literary culture, by blending fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a story about succeeding and failing to recapture the things we lose.Playing with a variety of styles and subjects, Dung Kai-cheung inventively engages with the fate of Hong Kong since its British 'handover' in 1997, which officially marked the end of colonial rule and the beginning of an uncharted future.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Contemporary Fiction, Literary Studies: General, Fiction In Translation, Science Fiction
- Download servers: Uploaded, FreakShare, BitShare, Hotfile, FileServe, Google Drive, 1337x, ownCloud. Compressed in TZO, ZIP, CBZ, RAR
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 25.77 USD
- Dimensions: 140x178x22.86mm
- Weight: 294.84g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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