You are eating an orange. You are naked /
A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad, to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague and Tokyo, often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each other, perhaps as a way to fill the undefined space between them. Theirs is a comic and eni...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
Book*hug Press,
[2020].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad, to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague and Tokyo, often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each other, perhaps as a way to fill the undefined space between them. Theirs is a comic and enigmatic relationship in which emotions are often muted and sometimes masked by verbal play and philosophical questions, and further complicated by the woman's frequent unexplained disappearances. You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. is an intimate novel of memory and longing that challenges Western tropes and Orientalism. Embracing the playful surrealism of Haruki Murakami and the atmospheric narratives of filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, Sheung-King's debut is at once lyrical and punctuated, and wholly unique, and marks the arrival of a bold new voice in Asian-Canadian literature. |
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| Physical Description: | 182 pages : portrait ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781771666411 1771666412 |