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: 2012/8/20
- Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
- ISBN: 9780231161008
- Rating: 9.25 of 10
- Votes: 127
- Review by: Avi Orta
- Review rating: 9.44 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/4
- Duration: 2H27M55S in 256 kbps (38.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-30
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, AAC, MP3, WAV, FLAC, WMA, Vorbis (compression JAR, 7-ZIP, ZIP, Z, LZO, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 192
- Includes a PDF summary of 22 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 16M23S (4.4 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into four sections-'Theory,' 'The City,' 'Streets,' and 'Signs'-the novel reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing real-world scenarios with purely imaginary people and events while incorporating anecdotes and actual and fictional social commentary and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, Fiction In Translation, Literary Studies: General, Science Fiction
- Download servers: 4Shared, Hotfile, 1337x, FileWhopper, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive. Compressed in JAR, 7-ZIP, ZIP, Z, LZO, 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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