You are eating an orange. You are naked / Sheung-King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheung-King, 1994- author.

Contributor:

Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Canadian.

Short stories, Canadian--21st century.

Genre:

Short stories, Canadian.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

182 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Book*hug Press, 2020.

Summary:

"A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad--to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo--often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each other, perhaps as a way to fill the undefined space between them. Theirs is a comic and enigmatic relationship in which emotions are often muted and sometimes masked by verbal play and philosophical questions, and further complicated by the woman's frequent unexplained disappearances. You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. is an intimate novel of memory and longing that challenges Western tropes and Orientalism. Embracing the playful surrealism of Haruki Murakami and the atmospheric narratives of filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, Sheung-King's debut is at once lyrical and punctuated, and wholly unique, and marks the arrival of a bold new voice in Asian-Canadian literature."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Sheung-King, 1994- You are eating an orange. You are naked.

ISBN:

9781771666411

1771666412

OCLC:

1157067429

Publisher Number:

99989363119