Pick a Colour by Souvankham Thammavongsa
From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labour and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged clients who don't even know her true name.
Only as masterful an ironist as Souvankham Thammavongsa could have pulled this off: a work of urgent and impassioned solidarity that is also a defiant, even pugnacious, assertion of narrative autonomy and technical controlPick a Colour is a knockout: every punch lands -- ELEANOR CATTON, author of Birnam Wood
Tender and intimate yet tense from beginning to end with its blow-by-blow immediacy, Pick a Colour subverts the comforting mundane. Souvankham Thammavongsa’s characters speak to us through the cracks of power hierarchies to elucidate the ordinary potential for violence buzzing under a thin veneer of normal society -- PITCHAYA SUDBANTHAD, author of Bangkok Wakes to Rain
Tender and intimate yet tense from beginning to end with its blow-by-blow immediacy, Pick a Colour subverts the comforting mundane. Souvankham Thammavongsa’s characters speak to us through the cracks of power hierarchies to elucidate the ordinary potential for violence buzzing under a thin veneer of normal society -- PITCHAYA SUDBANTHAD, author of Bangkok Wakes to Rain
Souvankham Thammavongsa’s fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, the Paris Review and more. Her collection of short stories, How to Pronounce Knife, won the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2021 Trillium Book Award, and her poetry has won numerous prizes. Born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, Thailand, she was raised and educated in Toronto. Pick a Colour is her first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526610485 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526610485 |
| Title | Pick a Colour |
| Author | Souvankham Thammavongsa |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2025-09-25 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
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