Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Storyside, 2019
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Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 29 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9789178897469 MWT18386423, 9178897467 18386423
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Benjamin Chow
Ismael, a transplanted Singaporean, lives on a bucolic suburban Brisbane street. His job is to decide whether asylum-seekers get to stay in the country, a dilemma that never fails to remind him of his own immigrant status. But then his life begins to take on the hue of a nightmare: his neighbour inexplicably commits suicide, his wife dies of cancer, his daughter abandons him for the United States, and his Siamese cat goes missing. In Lau Siew Mei's new novel, an enclosed Australian neighbourhood becomes a microcosm of a world increasingly hostile towards migrants
Mode of access: World Wide Web