Things to Make and Break
- 288 Seiten
- 11 Lesestunden
A sublime and provocative debut from one of the UK's most exciting new writers, for fans of Miranda July, Carmen Maria Machado and Lydia Davis.
May-Lan Tan Bücher
May-Lan Tan ist die Autorin der Kurzgeschichtensammlung Things to Make and Break und des Chapbooks Girly. Ihre literarische Welt taucht oft tief in die menschliche Psyche ein und erforscht komplexe Beziehungen und unausgesprochene Begierden. Tan zeichnet sich durch ihren scharfen Einblick in die Charaktere und einen präzisen Sprachstil aus, der die Leser ins Zentrum ihrer Erfahrungen zieht. Ihre Geschichten bieten beunruhigende, aber faszinierende Einblicke in das gegenwärtige Leben und die inneren Kämpfe von Individuen.
A coming-of-age tale of love and cultural reconnection set in modern-day Kuala Lumpur KATIE CHEN, 16, lives in the unremarkable suburb of Narre Warren in Australia with her somewhat reclusive Malaysian father. Coming to Australia when she was 5 and losing her mother at 7, she has always struggled with issues of identity. One day, she goes back to Malaysia for her grandmother's funeral and discovers that her mother - long-thought-dead - is alive. Set in a fictionalised Kuala Lumpur (KL), Katie struggles to reconnect with her mother whom she discovers is Malay. Navigating KL's underground music scene and the underlying tensions of a country she doesn't understand, how far is Katie willing to go to find a place to belong?