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Price: $12.99
Pages: 304
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
Publication Date:
16 October 2017
ISBN: 9781551527000
Format: eBook
"A beautiful and moving dream of old Chang'an, deliciously and fully conceived. Wide-awake to Chinese imperial history, traditional storytelling, kung-fu movies, and TCM, this novel is a must-read from a brilliant contemporary novelist." —Larissa Lai, author of When Fox is a Thousand and Salt Fish Girl
"In Oracle Bone, Lydia Kwa creates a transfixing narrative that bears the intimate familiarity of a dream with the grandeur of a historical epic. Her prose has the precision of fine embroidery, honing in on small moments and making delicate connections to deliver a wondrous world where magic is possible." —Doretta Lau, author of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?
"Collating a narrative of love, magic, power, and tradition Kwa performs an oracular story divining her way through a supernatural world of hybrid animas and shapeshifters to reveal adjacent truths of consciousness we usually only intuit. Oracle Bone is a poignant reminder that the imagination is real and its stories are crucial to an understanding of how we desire our world." —Fred Wah, Canada's former Parliamentary Poet Laureate
"In Oracle Bone, Lydia Kwa creates a transfixing narrative that bears the intimate familiarity of a dream with the grandeur of a historical epic. Her prose has the precision of fine embroidery, honing in on small moments and making delicate connections to deliver a wondrous world where magic is possible." —Doretta Lau, author of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?
"Collating a narrative of love, magic, power, and tradition Kwa performs an oracular story divining her way through a supernatural world of hybrid animas and shapeshifters to reveal adjacent truths of consciousness we usually only intuit. Oracle Bone is a poignant reminder that the imagination is real and its stories are crucial to an understanding of how we desire our world." —Fred Wah, Canada's former Parliamentary Poet Laureate
Lydia Kwa: Lydia Kwa is a writer and psychologist. She is the author of the novels This Place Called Absence (Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award finalist), The Walking Boy (Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize finalist), and Pulse, as well as two books of poetry, The Colours of Heroines and sinuous.