Siew Siang Tay

Handpicked (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What is it like to give up everything you have ever known?To stake everything on marriage to someone you've met only through letters?
What is it like to stake everything on a relationship based only on letters?Laila is desperate to escape life in the longhouse in her Malaysian village. Desperate enough to travel alone to Australia to marry Jim, a fruit-picker living in Renmark, South Australia. Jim hasn't had much luck with women - they've always given him a hard time. He pins his hopes on Laila changing all that. Marital bliss, a new life.But when Laila and Jim finally meet, they each discover the reality of the other, and things don't go as planned. Handpicked is a subtle and sensitive exploration of the world of the mail-order bride. It is also a compelling and finely observed account of expectations and consequences, words and actions, truth and love.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: 4th Estate
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780730400134
• Artikelnr.: 43846290

Autorenporträt

Siew Siang Tay was born in Malacca, Malaysia. After working for eleven years in the petroleum industry in Malaysia, she emigrated to Australia in 1992 with her daughter. She currently works at the University of South Australia. Her short stories have been published in literary magazines worldwide including Meanjin and Dimsum. In 2007 she was one of the winners of the HarperCollins Varuna Awards for Manuscript Development for Handpicked. She lives in Adelaide. www.siewsiangtay.com