May Readers Highlight Dorothy Tse's City Like Water

Get the Culture newsletter
Daily culture — film, music, books, the trends and ideas worth your attention. Free.
- Madeleine Thien and Sufiyaan Salam join Guardian readers in a monthly discussion of books they’ve read in May.
- Dorothy Tse’s novel City Like Water—translated by Natascha Bruce—is praised as unclassifiable, sharp, ingenious, and passionate.
- Guardian readers are invited to comment and share their own May reading selections.
Why it matters: Guardian readers gain fresh literary recommendations, while *City Like Water* gets heightened exposure that could boost its sales and translation interest; the column also drives community interaction on the site.




