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The Heartsick Diaspora, and other stories (Paperback)
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The Heartsick Diaspora, and other stories (Paperback)
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Loot Price R217
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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.
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