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This place called absence : a novel / Lydia Kwa.

by Kwa, Lydia, 1959-

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Turnstone Press, c2000.

Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- Fiction.

9780758201485 (Trade paperback)

Includes bibliographical references.

"A vast emptiness at the core of Wu Lan's life deepens in the wake of her father's startling suicide. Understandably depressed and despondent, Wu Lan is inexplicably drawn to the arcane journals of two prostitutes living in her native Singapore at the turn of the century, seeking answers and finding solace in their impassioned chronicles of barbaric brothel life and illicit lesbian love. Superficially, these three lives appear dissimilar, yet the longing each woman feels for a love that will complete her and fill the void that envelops her existence transcends time and place. This is as much Ah Choi and Chow Mat's story as it is Wu Lan's, as Kwa seamlessly weaves their past into Wu Lan's present, unlocking a familial mystery in the process. Kwa incisively juxtaposes divergent cultures and tender psyches, paying homage to the resiliency of the spirit with beguiling imagery in this psychologically complex tale. Lush and lyrical, Kwa's spellbinding portrait of dispirited women haunted by ghosts and hampered by circumstance echoes with raw, emotive drama."--Booklist.

Psychological fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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