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- Author: Sok Fong Ho
- Publisher: Two Lines Press
- ISBN-10: 193188398X
- ISBN-13: 9781931883986
- Format: 12.5 x 20.3 x 2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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By an author described by critics as "the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop, 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 urbanization, 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 center 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.
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- Author: Sok Fong Ho
- Publisher: Two Lines Press
- ISBN-10: 193188398X
- ISBN-13: 9781931883986
- Format: 12.5 x 20.3 x 2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
By an author described by critics as "the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop, 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 urbanization, 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 center 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.
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