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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?
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Katie Goes to KL, May-Lan Tan
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
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- Titel
- Katie Goes to KL
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- May-Lan Tan
- Verlag
- Penguin Random House SEA
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 240
- ISBN10
- 9815127810
- ISBN13
- 9789815127812
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Young Adult
- Bewertung
- 3,7 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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?