Lake Like a Mirror

By Ho Sok Fong

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193188398X
• ISBN13: 9781931883986
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Two Lines Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher