Cloud Labour by Sabrina Huang

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Cloud Labour by Sabrina Huang

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Summary

Set in an unspecified dystopian future in which people known as ‘Proxies’ are paid handsomely to remove negative emotions from their clients, Peacock, a successful Proxy, trains her son Sky to join the profession.

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Cloud Labour by Sabrina Huang

Set in an unspecified dystopian future in which people known as Proxies are paid handsomely to remove negative emotions from their clients, Peacock, a successful Proxy, trains her son Sky to join the profession.

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Sabrina Huang was born in 1979 in Taipei, and studied Philosophy at National Chengchi University. Her books include the essay collections Song Behind My Back, Things that Feel a Bit Extravagant and Me and the Cat are Staying Home, and the short story collection The House by the Sea. Lin King 金翎 is a writer and translator from Taipei, Taiwan. Her writing has appeared in One Story, Boston Review, and Joyland, among others, and has received the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Translations from Mandarin and Japanese into English include Yang Shuang-Zi’s novel Taiwan Travelogue (Graywolf, forthcoming 2024) and the historical graphic novel series The Boy from Clearwater (Levine Querido, 2023-2024) by Yu Pei-Yun and Zhou Jian-Xin. Lin holds degrees from Princeton University and Columbia University, where she has taught undergraduate writing.
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ISBN 13 9781915812674
ISBN 10 1915812674
Title Cloud Labour
Author Sabrina Huang
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher UEA Publishing Project
Year published 2024-11-30
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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