Tongueless by Yee-Wa Lau

Tongueless by Yee-Wa Lau

Provocative contemporary Hong Kong noir, blending together politics and personal rivalry into an explosively exciting debut

Insightful and investigative, Lau Yee-Wa explores the searing politics of a threatened tongue in Hong Kong with tact, terror and empathyShe evokes a dangerously competitive world fuelled by success, shopping, inflation of house prices, educational hierarchy and social status. It's a timely portrayal of a city that has experienced a seismic shock and is grappling with the consequences of irreversible change. -- Kit Fan, author of Diamond Hill
Darkly gleaming with claustrophobic terror and pitch-black humour, Tongueless picks away at the surface of Hong Kong to reveal the festering tensions that lie beneath ... skillfully depicts the relentless pressures that ordinary Hongkongers come under -- Jeremy Tiang, author of State of Emergency
Tongueless shocked me as much as any masterpiece I have ever read -- Chan Ho-Kei, author of The Borrowed

Lau Yee-Wa is one of Hong Kong's most exciting emerging authors. She studied Chinese Language and Literature and then Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, graduating with a Masters degree before going on to earn her Postgraduate Diploma in Secondary Education. Yee-Wa worked as an editor in a publishing house for five years before her short story 'The Shark' won the prestigious Hong Kong Champion Award for Creative Writing in Chinese in 2016.

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ISBN 13	9781800812819
ISBN 10	1800812817
Title	Tongueless
Author	Yee-Wa Lau
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	2024-06-06
Number of pages	304
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