City Like Water - Dorothy Tse Translator: Daniel Alarcón

Translator: Daniel Alarcón

From the arrival of Soviet troops into his hometown in Poland in 1939

It proved to be a sixteen-line death sentence

who lived to be a hundred

From an interview with a child-star-turned-thief to the mysterious death of an employee at a drug manufacturer - or the couple feigning marital bliss to keep their inheritance

City Like Water - Dorothy Tse Translator: Daniel AlarcónThe 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,