Cloud Labour
Cloud Labour
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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.
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781915812674 |
| ISBN 10 | 1915812674 |
| Title | Cloud Labour |
| Author | Sabrina Huang |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| 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. |
| Note | Unavailable |