But the Girl / Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
- Bib ID:
- 10009831
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Yu, Jessica Zhan Mei, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- [Docklands, Victoria] : Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Random House Australia, 2023
- ©2023
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 575KB
- ISBN:
- 9781760146054
- Summary:
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"Girl is spending the spring at an artist's residency in Scotland. Far from her home in Australia and her tight-knit Malaysian family, she is meant to be writing a postcolonial novel and working on a PhD on the poetry of Sylvia Plath. But she can't stop thinking about her upbringing and the stories of her parents and grandmother who raised her. How can she reconcile their dreams for her with her lived reality? Did Sylvia Plath have this problem? What even is a 'postcolonial novel'? And what if the story of becoming yourself is not about carving out a new identity but learning to understand the people who shaped you?" -- publisher.
- Notes:
- General.
- Subject:
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- Australian fiction -- Women authors
- Families -- Australia -- Fiction
- Grandmothers -- Fiction
- Malaysians -- Australia -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Women authors -- Family relationships -- Fiction
- Australia
- Fiction - Literary
- Malaysia
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Modern & contemporary fiction
- Genre/Form:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Penguin eBooks
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2023
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