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Water: A chronicle - Nguyen Ngoc Tu

Water: A chronicle - Nguyen Ngoc Tu

Brand: Major Books   |   Status: Còn hàng
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"At once mythical and ultra-modern, this is a compelling story of the strange fluidities and tenacities of human identity and behaviour in the media-saturated environments of the twenty-first century, as ever." - Rachel Bowlby FBA, Professor of Comparative Literature, UCL

"A grimey, watery tale of the always-unexpected, of rough surrounds lending themselves to all kinds of fervor." - Khairani Barokka, author of amuk

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Winner of the PEN Translates Award 2024

At the heart of this watery ‘chronicle’ is a dual mystery: a holy man on an island empire, and a desperate mother seeking his heart to cure her child. The mosaic novel of nine stories circles this enigma like the river’s currents, carrying with it fragments of myth and life from the great river.

A trans woman who wants to be ‘whole’, a shadow bride who wants to be fleshed, a mad woman with a colicky infant, a words-eating woman shielding her child from a fly apocalypse… The ghosts and ghouls that reflect upon the water surface may well be the everyday reality of river life, or simply the universal haunting of womanhood.