Once We Were There - Couverture souple

Chauly, Bernice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 191209861X ISBN 13 : 9781912098613

Editeur : Epigram Books, 2018

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

ONCE WE WERE THERE is a timely and important novel. First it plunges the reader into the social, cultural and sexual environment of KL at the turn of the millennium. Then it tells a story which is both heartbreaking and gripping, and deftly illustrates the inextricability of the personal and the political. --James Scudamore, Somerset Maugham Award-winning author of THE AMNESIA CLINIC

A love song to thwarted motherhood and the blunted dreams of the Reformasi movement, ONCE WE WERE THERE is as Malaysian as teh tarik - sweet, dark and a jolt to the senses. --Mei Fong, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist

An exhilarating fiction with a breathless, breakneck pace, like the new Malaysia it lovingly and bitingly tells on, with corrupt, idealistic, greedy, confused, identifiably Malaysian ordinary-native-citizens-politicians-power-monger-dispossessed-resistant characters to usher in a generational shift in sensibility. A must read for all who track Malaysian literature into the 21st century. --Shirley Geok-lin Lim, author of AMONG THE WHITE MOON FACES American Book Award winner

Biographie de l'auteur :

Bernice Chauly is a Malaysian novelist, poet and educator. She is the award-winning author of six books of poetry and prose which include the critically-acclaimed memoir Growing Up With Ghosts and Once We Were There, which won the Penang Monthly Book Prize 2017. For 20 years she worked as a multidisciplinary artist and is recognised as one of the most significant voices of her generation. Since 2011, she has directed the George Town Literary Festival, winner of the Literary Festival Award at the London Book Fair's International Excellence Awards 2018. She is an Honorary Fellow in Writing from the University of Iowa's International Writing Program (IWP2014) and currently teaches at the University of Nottingham Malaysia.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Epigram Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 191209861X
• ISBN 13: 9781912098613
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304