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A modest Beijing flat with a darkroom off the kitchen — where the countdown first appears on Wang Miao's developed photographs and follows him out of the negatives onto his own retinas.
The apartment is the most intimate location in the book — the place Wang Miao retreats to between confrontations with the impossible. The kitchen smells of cooking oil and developer chemicals. His wife is patient with the photography hobby; his small daughter does her homework in the living room while he hides in the darkroom. After the countdown appears it becomes the place he is most afraid of, because what he sees there cannot be left at the office. The numbers follow him home.
A standard Chinese urban apartment: small kitchen with a kettle that whistles too loud, a living room with a worn sofa and his daughter's homework on the coffee table, a study lined with physics texts. The darkroom is converted from a closet — red safelight, developing trays, drying lines hung with strips of film. A single Leica on the desk.
Also known as: Wang's apartment