Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781922725097
Year: 2023
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing


Description:
‘The self is not fixed, but reflects and refracts, appearing in innumerable variations,' writes Isabella Trimboli, in her essay on diaries and the writers who keep them that opens the new HEAT. Four short stories follow, each, in their own way, concerned with the construction of the self. With Isabella Trimboli, Ellena Savage, Kat Capel, Harald Voetmann (trans. Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen) Lin Bai (trans. Nicky Harman).In Ellena Savage's piercing satire ‘Bare Life', a woman muses on the duelling forces of body and mind at the nexus of capitalism, sex and philosophy. Kat Capel's ‘Sightseeing' follows a man with unsettling obsessions as he travels from Melbourne to Guangzhou, searching for human connection. Danish author Harald Voetmann (trans. Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen) peers into childhood fixations in ‘Common Room Rocking Horse'. And the narrator in Lin Bai's ‘The Light in the Mirror' (trans. Nicky Harman) recalls queer dreams and desires of a girlhood spent in rural China.