The Heartsick Diaspora, and other stories
Seiten
2020
Myriad Editions (Verlag)
978-1-912408-36-8 (ISBN)
Myriad Editions (Verlag)
978-1-912408-36-8 (ISBN)
Set in different cities around the world - New York, London, Singapore - this wry and playful debut collection of award-winning short stories are about emigration, identity, diasporas, family ties.
Elaine Chiew's stories are interlaced with humour, compassion and the importance of food and cooking, and the memories that meals evoke, as her characters negotiate unfamiliar worlds, raise children in another country or introduce parents to partners who don't speak their language.
In the title story, four writers find their cultural bonds of friendship tested when a handsome young Asian man joins their group. In other stories, a brother searches for his sister forced to serve as a comfort woman during World War Two; three Singaporean sisters run a French gourmet restaurant in New York; a woman raps about being a Tiger Mother in Belgravia; and a filmmaker struggles to document the lives of samsui women-Singapore's thrifty, hardworking construction workers.
Elaine Chiew drills below the surface of her characters' circumstances with exemplary narrative skill and subtlety. Her stories are as varied, worldly and emotionally resonant as the characters themselves. This is a fabulous debut collection and heralds an exciting new literary talent.
Elaine Chiew's stories are interlaced with humour, compassion and the importance of food and cooking, and the memories that meals evoke, as her characters negotiate unfamiliar worlds, raise children in another country or introduce parents to partners who don't speak their language.
In the title story, four writers find their cultural bonds of friendship tested when a handsome young Asian man joins their group. In other stories, a brother searches for his sister forced to serve as a comfort woman during World War Two; three Singaporean sisters run a French gourmet restaurant in New York; a woman raps about being a Tiger Mother in Belgravia; and a filmmaker struggles to document the lives of samsui women-Singapore's thrifty, hardworking construction workers.
Elaine Chiew drills below the surface of her characters' circumstances with exemplary narrative skill and subtlety. Her stories are as varied, worldly and emotionally resonant as the characters themselves. This is a fabulous debut collection and heralds an exciting new literary talent.
Elaine Chiew is a writer and a visual arts researcher, and editor of Cooked Up: Food Fiction From Around the World (New Internationalist, 2015). Twice winner of the Bridport Short Story Competition, she has published numerous stories in anthologies in the UK, US and Singapore. Originally from Malaysia, Chiew graduated from Stanford Law School and worked as a corporate securities lawyer in New York and Hong Kong before studying for an MA in Asian Art History at Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore, a degree conferred by Goldsmiths, University of London. Elaine lives in Singapore and her collection of short stories, The Heartsick Diaspora, and other stories is available to buy now.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.02.2019 |
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| Verlagsort | Brighton |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-912408-36-8 / 1912408368 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-912408-36-8 / 9781912408368 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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