Lake Like a Mirror
  • Published:
    Apr-2020
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Pages:
    240
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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 urbanization, 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 center 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.
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    • First Edition
    • Apr-2020
    • Two Lines Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 193188398X
    • ISBN13: 9781931883986
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    • Nov-2019
    • Granta Books (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 184627690X
    • ISBN13: 9781846276903
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    • Apr-2020
    • Two Lines Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1931883998
    • ISBN13: 9781931883993
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    • Apr-2020
    • Two Lines Press
    • eBook (Kindle)



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