Winner of the International Proverse Prize 2023
“Matthew Wong Foreman’s debut novel is an ambitious, epistolary sprawl that chronicles, protests and scrambles what a ‘Hong Kong novel’ (assuming such a a thing really needs to exist) ought to be. Sunset at Lion Rock is a fabulous beast of a book…A notably rewarding read from an obvious talent.”
— Xu Xi 許素細, author of That Man in Our Lives, This Fish is Fowl, and Monkey in Residence and Other Speculations
“Love and loss share the same root in Sunset at Lion Rock. The narrator's passionate, searching voice takes us through the tug-of-war of a biracial and multicultural Hong Kong native, as he navigates the pain of understanding family decisions alongside his home city's complex history, as well as finding resolution, acceptance, and peace.
— Flora Qian, author of South of the Yangtze, winner of the Proverse Prize 2022
Wong Foreman’s Hong Kong is complexly nuanced, is existentially problematic, is much more real and multi-prismed than the English language can manage to imagine and construct. A flawed place, an ingenious place, a borrowed place, a tragic place, a magic place-an all too human, all too spirited-emporium of the past gasping through the present.
— Jason S Polley, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University; author of Jason S Polley, Wing Kin Vinton Poon, and Lian-Hee Wee (eds). Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong: Angles on a Coherent Imaginary. Palgrave, 2018.