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Set in different cities around the world — Hong Kong, Miami, New York, London, Ipoh and Singapore — Elaine Chiew's award-winning stories travel into the heart of the Singaporean-Malaysian diaspora, and ask what it means to be 'Chinese' or 'Asian' within the context of dual, or hyphenated, identities.
In the title story (runner-up in the 2018 UK Bridport Prize) four Asian writers are flummoxed by the sexual shenanigans that start when a handsome young Asian writer joins their support group. In other stories, three Singaporean daughters welcome their mother on a first visit to London and quarrel over steamboat, a Chinese woman raps about being a Tiger Mother, an elderly Chinese woman finds that it isn't race that estranges, but the inability to tell the truth, and an ethnic writer takes on Eastern mythology in a metaphoric quest to understand the anxiety of Western literary influence.
'Innovative in format and original in content, The Heartsick Diaspora is clever, multilayered, challenging and political. It's also full of verve and wit.' — Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane, Man Booker Prize short-listed
'Elaine Chiew's witty stories in The Heartsick Diaspora offer us a rich palette of feelings and experiences that often converge: humour, melancholy, rage, and tenderness. Issues of race, ethnicity, and cultural identities are embedded in the everyday — in the kitchen, on the bus, or at school — as characters navigate between connection and isolation, visibility and invisibility, familiarity and distance.' — Intan Paramaditha, author of Apple and Knife<
The Heartsick Diaspora, and other stories
€53.60
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Description:Set in different cities around the world — Hong Kong, Miami, New York, London, Ipoh and Singapore — Elaine Chiew's award-winning stories travel into the heart of the Singaporean-Malaysian diaspora, and ask what it means to be 'Chinese' or 'Asian' within the context of dual, or hyphenated, identities.
In the title story (runner-up in the 2018 UK Bridport Prize) four Asian writers are flummoxed by the sexual shenanigans that start when a handsome young Asian writer joins their support group. In other stories, three Singaporean daughters welcome their mother on a first visit to London and quarrel over steamboat, a Chinese woman raps about being a Tiger Mother, an elderly Chinese woman finds that it isn't race that estranges, but the inability to tell the truth, and an ethnic writer takes on Eastern mythology in a metaphoric quest to understand the anxiety of Western literary influence.
'Innovative in format and original in content, The Heartsick Diaspora is clever, multilayered, challenging and political. It's also full of verve and wit.' — Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane, Man Booker Prize short-listed
'Elaine Chiew's witty stories in The Heartsick Diaspora offer us a rich palette of feelings and experiences that often converge: humour, melancholy, rage, and tenderness. Issues of race, ethnicity, and cultural identities are embedded in the everyday — in the kitchen, on the bus, or at school — as characters navigate between connection and isolation, visibility and invisibility, familiarity and distance.' — Intan Paramaditha, author of Apple and Knife<