Things to Make and Break
- 288pages
- 11 heures de lecture
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 Livres
May-Lan Tan est l'auteure du recueil de nouvelles Things to Make and Break et du chapbook Girly. Son univers littéraire plonge souvent dans les profondeurs de la psyché humaine, explorant des relations complexes et des désirs inexprimés. Tan se caractérise par son aperçu perspicace des personnages et un style linguistique précis qui entraîne le lecteur au cœur de ses expériences. Ses nouvelles offrent des aperçus troublants mais captivants de la vie contemporaine et des luttes intérieures des individus.
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?