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* FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE''S GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE *A professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina in a mordant and uncanny fable of contemporar ...

* FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE''S GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE *A professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina in a mordant and uncanny fable of contemporary Hong KongWith your face covered, sneaking into a city you thought you knew, are you still yourself? Or have you crossed to another world, where the streets are unpredictable and the people strangers, where you might at any moment run into some unknown dream version of yourself?In a city called Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lackluster career, but