Overleaf Hong Kong
讀書樂編號：4246
推介人： 盧碩鈞校友
In Overleaf Hong Kong, a collection of short stories and essays, Xu Xi explores what it means to be an overseas Chinese, a fascinating state rife with ambiguities. With a style at once coolly ironic and droll, with a subtlety that resists belaboring the obvious, she plumbs those ambiguities eloquently. Whether it is an imagined Indonesian Chinese schoolgirl dealing with a menacing Japanese officer in wartime Singapore; a fairly affluent, late middle-aged couple vacationing in New Zealand; the author describing a talk to the Chinese Mutual Aid Society in Chicago; or meditating on the idiosyncrasies of life at Jack Kerouac's former home turned artist's colony, she alerts us to the nuances of a seemingly contradictory condition-at home everywhere and nowhere.
