# City Like Water

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- Book: [City Like Water](https://www.bookquiver.com/dorothy-tse/city-like-water) ([City Like Water.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dorothy-tse/city-like-water.md))
- Authors: [Dorothy Tse](https://www.bookquiver.com/dorothy-tse)
- Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
- ISBN: 978-18-0427-228-2
- Pages: 96
- Published: 2026-03-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The city you grew up in is gone, as if sunk to the bottom of the ocean. So much has vanished with it – counterfeit watches, streets echoing with the sound of stilettos, and even some of your classmates and teachers. Then the disappearances come closer to home. Your mother joins a housewives’ protest over fake lotus roots only to be turned into a statue by the police. Your father is quietly absorbed into the enormous TV gifted by the government, reappearing in the background of soap operas. And didn’t you once have a little sister, before she flew away? As the police go undercover and transform your neighbourhood into a violent labyrinth you can no longer navigate, where does this leave you? Lucid, nightmarish and indelible, City Like Water is a wondrous tale of a city not so different from your own.