Grace Chia

Broschiertes Buch

The Arches of Gerrard Street

Beschreibung

'The Arches of Gerrard Street reconfigures the tropes of the thriller to deliver a stinging commentary on the chilling trade at the book's heart. Chia side-steps your narrative expectations and surprises you with tender affirmations of her characters' humanity.' -Barrie Sherwood, author of Speed of Lightness MURDER. MIGRANTS. MAFIA. A small-town girl from Malaysia goes to London's Chinatown to uncover the truth behind the tragedy that befell her childhood sweetheart. The shooting of Molly's childhood friend in London's Chinatown has led her from Batu Pahat in Malaysia to the British capital to find answers. Who murdered him? And why? She soon becomes embroiled in a web of deceit spun in an immigrant enclave shrouded in secrecy as her past catches up on her. The Arches of Gerrard Street is a coming-of-age novel about a young girl from a small town thrust into a big city finding her way back to herself.

Autor

Grace Chia is the author of three poetry collections, a couple of prose titles and non-fiction commissions. Her work has been widely anthologised from Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong to the US, and translated into French, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian and Serbo-Croat. She has been awarded writing residencies at Nanyang Technological University (with National Arts Council) and Toji Cultural Centre and Seoul Art Space Yeonhui in South Korea. Apart from being a judge of poetry competitions for the Golden Point Award, National Poetry Competition and The Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry, she has mentored writers for NAC and Sing Lit Station and taught creative writing at the university and pre-tertiary levels. The Arches of Gerrard Street is her second novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jw Choices
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 124mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9789814882910
• ISBN-10: 9814882917
• Artikelnr.: 62137404