Jessica Zhan Mei Yu

But the Girl (eBook, ePUB)

'A wonderful new novel' Brandon Taylor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behind

'Impressive... Yu remakes the art of writing itself'
GUARDIAN

'A wonderful new novel for a metamodern world'
BRANDON TAYLOR, author of The Late Americans

Girl was born on the very day her parents and grandmother immigrated from Malaysia to Australia. The story goes that her mother held on tight to her pelvic muscles in an effort to gift her the privilege of an Australian passport. But it's hard to be the embodiment of all your family's hopes and dreams, especially in a country that's hostile to your very existence.

When Girl receives a scholarship to travel to the UK, she is finally free for the first time. In London and then Scotland she is meant to be working on a PhD on Sylvia Plath and writing a postcolonial novel. But Girl can't stop thinking about her upbringing and the stories of the people who raised her. How can she reconcile their expectations with her reality? Did Sylvia Plath have this problem? What even is a 'postcolonial novel'? And what if the story of becoming yourself is not about carving out a new identity, but learning to understand the people who made you who you are?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529191509
• Artikelnr.: 66442884

Autorenporträt

Jessica Zhan Mei Yu is a writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne. Her writing has been published in Best Australian Poems, Overland, Yen, Sydney Morning Herald, White Review and others. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. But the Girl is her first novel.

Rezensionen

Impressive... Yu is the writer Girl wishes to be - remaking, in her own image, the young female protagonist, the Künstlerroman, the postcolonial novel, and the art of writing itself Guardian