What does it mean, the codes 13·67?
13·67 is not a mathematical constant like π nor the password to unlock the last door in an escape room. It is not as complicated and mysterious as you thought – rather, it simply implies the years 2013 and 1967, and the six stories happened in the fifty-something years in between.
As a new production of the restructuring literary classics series, this time, Mathias Woo placed his cultural lens in Hong Kong, where he was born and raised. The story of The Borrowed begins in 1967, and Mathias Woo was born in 1968 – the forty-six years in the fiction of The Borrowed can be said as a summary of Hong Kong in Mathias’s memory.
The original novel The Borrowed narrates from the perspective of inspector partners who are familiar to Hong Kongers. The book is about six mysteries from 1967-2013, told in reverse chronology – presenting to the readers a turbulent time in the city’s extensive history.