Featuring Xu Xi in conversation with Jee Leong Koh
Accent Sisters 重音社
89 5th Ave #702, New York, NY 10002, USA
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One of Hong Kong’s leading English writers, Xu Xi investigates and invigorates the transnational, transcultural, and translingual dimensions of her beloved city in these 22 stories covering the 1960s to the present day. Accent Sisters is proud to present the book launch of Xu Xi’s short story collection, Horizon Hong Kong, a Gaudy Boy publication, in conversation with Jee Leong Koh.

Xu Xi 許素細, xuxiwriter.com, an Indonesian-Chinese-American from Hong Kong, has published sixteen books—five novels, nine prose collections, one memoir, one coauthored textbook—and edited four anthologies of English Hong Kong literature. Her recent titles include Monkey in Residence and Other Speculations (2022), This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being (2019), Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy for a City (2017), the novel That Man in Our Lives (2016), and the textbook The Art and Craft of Asian Stories.

​Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet), named a Best Book of the Year by UK's Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the USA. His hybrid work of fiction, Snow at 5 PM: Translations of an insignificant Japanese poet, won the Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. Koh is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Gaudy Boy Press.