Things to Make and Break
- 288pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
A sublime and provocative debut from one of the UK's most exciting new writers, for fans of Miranda July, Carmen Maria Machado and Lydia Davis.
May-Lan Tan Libri
May-Lan Tan è l'autrice della raccolta di racconti Things to Make and Break e del chapbook Girly. Il suo mondo letterario spesso si addentra nelle profondità della psiche umana, esplorando relazioni complesse e desideri inespressi. Tan è caratterizzata dalla sua acuta intuizione dei personaggi e da uno stile linguistico preciso che attira i lettori nel cuore delle loro esperienze. I suoi racconti offrono scorci inquietanti ma affascinanti sulla vita contemporanea e sulle lotte interiori degli individui.
A coming-of-age tale of love and cultural reconnection set in modern-day Kuala Lumpur KATIE CHEN, 16, lives in the unremarkable suburb of Narre Warren in Australia with her somewhat reclusive Malaysian father. Coming to Australia when she was 5 and losing her mother at 7, she has always struggled with issues of identity. One day, she goes back to Malaysia for her grandmother's funeral and discovers that her mother - long-thought-dead - is alive. Set in a fictionalised Kuala Lumpur (KL), Katie struggles to reconnect with her mother whom she discovers is Malay. Navigating KL's underground music scene and the underlying tensions of a country she doesn't understand, how far is Katie willing to go to find a place to belong?