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Lake like a mirror / Ho Sok Fong ; translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce.

Van Pelt Library PL2937.5.O64 A2 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Fong, Ho Sok, author.
Contributor:
Bruce, Natascha, translator.
Standardized Title:
Short stories. Selections. English
Language:
Chinese
English
Subjects (All):
Fong, Ho Sok--Translations into English.
Fong, Ho Sok.
Women--Fiction.
Women.
Genre:
Translations.
Short stories.
Physical Description:
199 pages ; 20 cm
Place of Publication:
London : Granta, 2019.
Summary:
"Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanisation, patriarchal structures and a theocratic government, these women find their lives twisted in disturbing ways. In precise and disquieting prose, Ho Sok Fong draws her readers into a richly atmospheric world of naked sleepwalkers in a Muslim women's home, mysterious wooden boxes, gossip in unlicensed hairdressers, hotels with amnesiac guests, and poetry classes with accidentally charged politics - a world that is both bizarre and utterly true."--Publisher description.
Contents:
The wall
Radio drama
Lake like a mirror
The chest
Summer tornado
Aminah
Wind through the pineapple leaves, through the frangipani
October
March in a small town.
Notes:
Translated from the Chinese with the title of: Hú miàn rú jing.
Originally published as Hú miàn rú jing in 2014 by Aquarius Publishing Co. Ltd., Taiwan.
ISBN:
9781846276903
184627690X
OCLC:
1120188736
Publisher Number:
99982602882

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