The Impossible City
A Hong Kong Memoir
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A boldly rendered—and deeply intimate—account of Hong Kong today, from a resilient young woman whose stories explore what it means to survive in a city teeming with broken promises.
“[A] pulsing debut . . . about what it means to find your place in a city as it vanishes before your eyes.”—The New York Times Book Review
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post
Hong Kong is known as a place of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that now exists at the margins of an ascendant China; a city rocked by mass protests, where residents rally—often in vain—against threats to their fundamental freedoms. But it is also misunderstood, and often romanticized. Drawing from her own experience reporting on the politics and culture of her hometown, as well as interviews with musicians, protesters, and writers who have watched their home transform, Karen Cheung gives us a rare insider’s view of this remarkable city at a pivotal moment—for Hong Kong and, ultimately, for herself.
Born just before the handover to China in 1997, Cheung grew up questioning what version of Hong Kong she belonged to. Not quite at ease within the middle-class, cosmopolitan identity available to her at her English-speaking international school, she also resisted the conservative values of her deeply traditional, often dysfunctional family.
Through vivid and character-rich stories, Cheung braids a dual narrative of her own coming of age alongside that of her generation. With heartbreaking candor, she recounts her yearslong struggle to find reliable mental health care in a city reeling from the traumatic aftermath of recent protests. Cheung also captures moments of miraculous triumph, documenting Hong Kong’s vibrant counterculture and taking us deep into its indie music and creative scenes. Inevitably, she brings us to the protests, where her understanding of what it means to belong to Hong Kong finally crystallized.
An exhilarating blend of memoir and reportage, The Impossible City charts the parallel journeys of both a young woman and a city as they navigate the various, sometimes contradictory paths of coming into one’s own.
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“Through [Cheung’s] graceful writing . . . we learn about Hong Kong’s many different worlds and social strata, and her struggles to find her place. . . . Her lyrical book is part diary and part love letter to her hometown.”—The Washington Post
“A moving account of a Millennial who watches the free and international city in which she was born and raised slowly devolve into an oppressed society . . . A deeply felt lamentation about a flawed, yet free, society becoming subsumed by authoritarianism.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“In her pulsing debut memoir, The Impossible City, Karen Cheung writes eloquently about what it means to find your place in a city as it vanishes before your eyes. . . . Interspersed throughout this narrative are her intimate conversations with friends, fellow protesters, musicians and former classmates…. For far too long, faraway interests have claimed to speak for Hong Kong. It’s time to let Hong Kongers, in all their multitudes, speak for themselves.”—The New York Times Book Review
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Gesamt5 out of 5 stars
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Sprecher5 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte5 out of 5 stars
- Steven
- 09.06.2025
A book written for the future
It’s a little strange when you stop to consider who the intended audience for this book really is.
If you’re from Hong Kong, chances are you already know most, if not all, of what’s written here. But if you’re not from Hong Kong, the stories might feel too grounded, too ordinary, to truly resonate.
That leaves one last group: those who are from here, but never knew the Hong Kong we once did. The students who still grab lunch on Water Street, but no longer know what HKUSU stands for. For them, this book is a time capsule—one that preserves a fading memory and quietly passes it on.
This book isn’t trying to explain or persuade. Instead, it simply remembers-so that someone, someday, might understand what was once here, and what it meant to belong.
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Gesamt5 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte5 out of 5 stars
- Stefan Schwarz
- 25.10.2022
The Magic of Books
The magic of books to open doors, to see the world through different eyes, to broaden your horizon, to deepen your understanding, and to feel less lonely in this world. This magic always fascinates me but it rarely struck me so hard as with this book.
There is me living in this magic city for only 6 years but feeling it is probably the place I grew most attached to in my life.
And then there is Karen Cheung writing about so many things in this city and in herself I can relate to and allowing me to discover so much more previously hidden by my inability to speak Cantonese.
The Impossible City is a very personal and intimate book, and that is what makes it so special. That is how books should be.
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