Author : Ho Sok Fong
Release : 2019-11-07
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 926/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lake Like a Mirror by : Ho Sok Fong
Download or read book Lake Like a Mirror written by Ho Sok Fong. This book was released on 2019-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 rehabilitation centre 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.