Lake like a mirror
Fong, Ho Sok2019
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'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 rehabilitation centre for wayward Muslims, mysterious wooden boxes, gossip in unlicensed hairdressers, hotels with amnesiac guests, and poetry classes with accidentally charged politics - a world that is peopled with the ghosts of unsaid words, unmanaged desires and uncertain statuses, surreal and utterly true.
Main title:
Lake like a mirror / Ho Sok Fong ; translated by Natascha Bruce.
Author:
Fong, Ho Sok, authorBruce, Natascha, translator
Imprint:
London : Granta, 2019.
Collation:
208 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Chinese.
ISBN:
9781846276903 (pbk)
Dewey class:
895.136
LC class:
PL2937.5.O64
Language:
EnglishChinese
BRN:
2544762
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