Translation Tuesday: “The City of Walls” by Dung Kai-Cheung (opens in new tab)

In this surreal short story from Hong Kong writer Dung Kai-Cheung, translated by Penny Yeung, the nationalist mania for ever stronger borders and boundaries reaches its apotheosis, illustrated in the contrast between one woman’s quest to reach the invisibly distant walls of present-day V City, and one man’s recollection of the multitudinous little walls of V City’s colonial past. […]