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Title: Lake Like a Mirror
Author: FONG HO SOK
Illustrator: BRUCE NATASCHA
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 07/01/2020
Imprint: GRANTA
Price: $28.00
Publishing status: Active
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 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.
ISBN: 9781846276903
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 208