Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
After returning to Hufang Street, a daughter watches her aging father’s memory begin to fracture as the place that has held her family’s past for generations transforms beyond recognition.Beneath a man-made dome of clouds, ordinary life slips into the uncanny. Birds cry from electrical wires, an unfinished childhood tale turns a boy into a wolf, and Lingxiao, a mother who lives almost entirely inside her memories, remains forever beyond her daughter’s reach. Then the first drop of black rain falls, and the street begins its slide toward catastrophe.As her father’s past disappears and demolition closes in, the daughter searches for meaning inside his stories, Lingxiao’s silences, and the strange life of the street itself. To preserve what remains, she must discover whether memory is a prison, a refuge, or the only home that cannot be destroyed.Intimate, dreamlike, and quietly devastating, Hufang Street is a work of contemporary Chinese literary fiction about aging parents, inherited memory, urban transformation, and the stories that bind families across time.What survives when memory fails, and the place that held it is about to vanish?
