The tengu : tales from the Temple of Ordinary Terrors / Trevor Hay
- Bib ID:
- 8543449
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hay, Trevor, 1946-, author
- Description:
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- North Melbourne, Victoria : Tantanoola, a literary imprint of Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, 2020
- ©2020
- xvii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781925984873 (paperback)
- Summary:
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In 2019 Roy, a retired librarian living alone in dwindling bushland on the outskirts of Melbourne, is lured out of his shell by his neighbours, two migrant Chinese families who run a motel and restaurant. With other neighbours and guests, they get together regularly for Friday Chinese banquets, retiring for after-dinner ghost stories to an old Presbyterian church among the gums behind the restaurant - 'The Temple of Ordinary Terrors'. He records the passage of the year in a journal that includes notes from his intercultural story-telling group. He finds that mortals, and even some part- human, part-goblin beings, like the Japanese tengu, inhabit a zone somewhere between the terrors of the supernatural world, depicted in literature and art, and the 'ordinary' terrors of the natural, 'real' world. In the process Roy finds a special friend and ultimately exorcises the ghost of his own loneliness, which he has been inclined to idealise as solitude.
- Notes:
- Some text in Chinese.
- Subject:
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- Librarians -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Fiction
- Retirees -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Fiction
- Older men -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Fiction
- Chinese Australians -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Fiction
- Neighbors -- Fiction
- Social isolation -- Fiction
- Loneliness -- Fiction
- Dinners and dining -- Fiction
- Storytelling -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Australian
- Available From:
- 00689124
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2020
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