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020			_a9781846276903
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bFON/LA
100			_aFong Ho,Sok
245			_aLAKE LIKE A MIRROR : Stories
250			_a1
260			_aLondon _bGranta Publishers _c2019/01/01
300			_g199
500			_aA portrait of Malaysian society in nine stories, 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 Muslim women's home, mysterious wooden boxes, gossip in unlicensed hairdressers, hotels with amnesiac guests, and poetry classes with accidentally charged politics - a world that is both bizarre and utterly true.
650			_aFiction
700			_aBruce, Natascha (tr.)
942			_cLEN
942			_2ddc
999			_c180230 _d180230