![]() "Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro. Rich with ancient Chinese mythology and cultural lore, this remarkable novel is about gender, love, honour, intrigue, and fighting against oppression. Could Miranda be infected by the Dreaming Disease that makes the past leak into the present?įramed by a playful sense of magical realism, Salt Fish Girl reveals a futuristic Pacific Northwest where corporations govern cities, factory workers are cybernetically engineered, middle-class labour is a video game, and those who haven’t sold out to commerce and other ills must fight the evil powers intent on controlling everything. in English from the University of Calgary. She was an active cultural organizer through the 1990s and holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a Ph.D. ![]() Miranda is haunted by traces of her mother’s glamourous cabaret career, the strange smell of durian fruit that lingers about her, and odd tokens reminiscient of Nu Wa. About The Author Larissa Lai is the author of two novels, When the Fox is a Thousand and Salt Fish Girl. ![]() Told in the beguiling voice of a narrator who is fish, snake, girl, and woman - all of whom must struggle against adversity for survival - the novel is set alternately in nineteenth-century China and in a futuristic Pacific Northwest.Īt turns whimsical and wry, Salt Fish Girl intertwines the story of Nu Wa, the shape-shifter, and that of Miranda, a troubled young girl living in the walled city of Serendipity circa 2044. Salt Fish Girl is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form through time and place. ![]()
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