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Anguli Ma : a gothic tale / Chi Vu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vu, Chi, author.
- Series:
- Giramondo Shorts Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnamese fiction.
- Australian fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (112 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Artarmon : Giramondo, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Chi Vu takes the central figure in a traditional Buddhist folktale, a deranged killer who wears his victims' fingers in a garland around his neck, and turns him into a menacing abbatoir worker who carries bloody chunks of meat home to his lodgings in plastic bags, in this suburban Gothic tale set in 1980s Melbourne, when the flight of Vietnamese refugees to Australia was at its height. The novella gives a compelling insight into the relations formed between refugees who have been displaced from their families or their communities, and lead isolated lives haunted by suspicion and fear. At the s
- Contents:
- Intro
- Chi Vu
- Anguli Ma A Gothic Tale
- The Monk
- Đào
- The Brown Man
- Bác
- Young Triều
- Anguli Ma
- Tuyết
- Sinh
- Trung
- The Brown Man.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 5, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-922146-73-0
- OCLC:
- 884646324
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