How many stories in this world can be told from the very beginning? Five short stories about different aspects of Chinese life and such dissimilar heroes. Cinderella, in whose story friendship turned out to be more important than love. A student who was unexpectedly helped to understand Hong Kong by the Yiji noodle shop. Man is Cigarette Ash, who survived the collapse of eras and could not find his place in any of them. Four-year-old Gogo, left alone with the outside world for the first time. And a whole residential complex, in the measured everyday life of whose residents a rainstorm intervened - a real natural disaster.

Three facts about the book: 1. The Thai princess liked the title story “Her City” so much that she herself translated it into Thai.2. At the center of the plot of each short story is the fate of a small (sometimes literally) man.3. The fascinating atmosphere of China at the crossroads of eras.