Lai Chu Hon

Mending Bodies

Übersetzer: Leung, Jacqueline

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In dystopian Hong Kong, a new government program incentivizes physical conjoinment between individuals through a painful and disruptive surgery, promising personal fulfillment and a reduced cost of living"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Two Lines Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 17mm
• ISBN-13: 9781949641769
• ISBN-10: 1949641767
• Artikelnr.: 71207008

Autorenporträt

Hon Lai Chu was born and raised in Hong Kong, where she currently resides, and is the author of several novels, including Mending Bodies and The Border of Centrifugation, as well as a recent book of short stories, Lost Caves. With Dorothy Tse, she co-authored the 2012 short story collection A Dictionary of Two Cities, which won the Hong Kong Book Prize in 2013. In 2004, she was awarded the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature (Fiction) for her short story collection Silent Creature. Her 2006 novel Kite Family, first published as a novella, won the New Writer's Novella first prize from Taiwan's Unitas Literary Association; the extended version was selected as one of 2008's Books of the Year by the China Times in Taiwan. Andrea Lingenfelter's English translation of Hon Lai Chu's The Kite Family was published in 2015.