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Lake like a mirror / Ho Sok Fong ; translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce.

by Fong, Ho Sok.

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Two Lines Press, 2020.

Women -- Malaysia -- Fiction.

Malaysia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

9781931883986 (trade pbk)

206 p. ; 21 cm.

Translated from the Chinese.

The wall -- Radio drama -- Lake like a mirror -- The chest -- Summer tornado -- Aminah -- Wind through the pineapple leaves, through the frangipani -- October -- March in a small town.

"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."--Publisher.

Women's fiction.

Literary fiction.

Malaysian fiction (Chinese) -- Translations into English.

Chinese fiction -- Translations into English.

Bruce, Natascha.

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