Hong Kong Noir -

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Résumé :

Fourteen of the city's finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting stories of depravity and despair.

Biographie:

Jason Y. Ng is the best-selling author of Hong Kong State of Mind, No City for Slow Men, and Umbrellas in Bloom--the first book in English to chronicle the Umbrella Movement of 2014. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies. Ng is also an adjunct associate law professor at the University of Hong Kong and president of PEN Hong Kong.

Susan Blumberg-Kason is the author of Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair With China Gone Wrong. Her writing has also appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books China Blog and China channel, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Asian Jewish Life, and several Hong Kong anthologies. She received an MPhil in government and public administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Blumberg-Kason lives in Chicago and frequently travels to Hong Kong.

Sommaire:

Introduction

Part I: Hungry Ghosts & Troubled Spirits
Ghost of Yulan Past by Jason Y. Ng (Tin Hau)
TST by Xu Xi (Tsim Sha Tsui)
This Quintessence of Dust by Marshall More (Cheung Chau)
The Kamikaze Caves by Brittani Sonnenberg (Lamma Island)

Part II: Obedience & Respect
You Deserve More by Tiffany Hawk (Lan Kwai Fong)
Phoenix Moon by James Tam (Mong Kok)
One Marriage, Two People by Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang (Ma On Shan)

Part III: Family Matters
Ticket Home by Charles Philipp Martin (Yau Ma Tei)
A View to Die For by Christina Liang (Repulse Bay)
Expensive Tissue Paper by Feng Chi-shun (Diamond Hill)

Part IV: Death & Thereafter
Blood on the Steps by Shannon Young (The Pottinger Steps)
Kam Tin Red by Shen Jian (Kam Tin)
Fourteen by Carmen Suen (Wah Fu)
Big Hotel by Ysabelle Cheung (North Point)