In this collection of short stories Peter Ho Davies explores
whether love can ever be equal in any relationship and he writes
from a gamut of perspectives: husband, son, brother, daughter,
mother, friend. Ho Davies has lived and worked in the UK and the US
and his wealth of experience resonates in his portrayal of cultures
and creation of atmospheric settings. He writes convincingly as an
Englishman who watches football with his gay brother who is dying
of Aids, and equally so as an American junkie mother, trying to
regain custody of her son. Although he misses the mark by a
fraction with his characterization of a ten-year-old dentist's
daughter, his portrayal of the father-daughter relationship rings
true. In the title story a middle-aged man contemplates the
complications of his relationships with his wife, his best friend,
and his best friend's wife and the way their children relate to
them all. Ho Davies carefully avoids drawing conclusions; but his
many questions are well framed and illustrated. How does the
arrival of a child affect the love between parents? How do
impending death and mental illness affect love? Would you choose
your child over your parent? Or your lover? These characters and
the issues they face will make you think about them, and continue
to think long - perhaps long after you forgot where you read about
them in the first place. (Kirkus UK)
'Witty, intelligent . . . definitely a name to watch.' Scotland on
Sunday In his new collection, prize-winning author Peter Ho Davies
takes as his starting point the essential imbalance of the
relationship between parent and child. Drawing on the author's own
cross-cultural inheritance, these stories range across a series of
settings and backgrounds. From a Chinese son gambling with
professional mourners to a mixed-race couple who experience a close
encounter with an alien being, Ho Davies' characters share an
instantly recognizable sense of displacement - these are children
of one century, adults of the next - caught between debts to their
parents and what they owe their offspring. Sharply observed and
compassionate, Equal Love imparts the talent of a truly original
writer, whose work has already earned comparison with that of
Raymond Carver, James Joyce and V. S. Naipaul. 'Smartly written and
sweetly subversive.' Independent 'A set of delicate variations on
the theme that love brings pain.Davies'.writing is poignant and
humane.' Sunday Times 'This is Ho Davies on top form; funny,
touching, off-beat. Like his first collection, Equal Love deserves
the laurels.' Literary Review
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