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Things to Make and Break by May-Lan Tan - ISBN: 9781473683624
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Hypnotic stories of shadows, doubles, and lovers make or break.

Things to Make and Break

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    224 pages

  • Release Date

    26 June 2018

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Summary

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD

A motorcycle courier finds a cache of nude photos in her boyfriend’s desk. The daughter of East German emigrants encounters her doppelganger, who has crossed another cultural divide. Twin brothers fall for the same girl. When a stripper receives an enigmatic proposal from a client, she accepts, ignorant of its terms.

Shadows, doubles, and the ghosts of past and future lovers haunt these elegantly structured and often hallucinatory …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781473683624
ISBN-10:1473683629
Author:May-Lan Tan
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Sceptre
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:26 June 2018
Weight:161g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 14mm
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Critics Review

Quite dazzling. - TLS

Mind-blowingly good - PANK

There’s plenty of darkness and a sprinkling of magic, and these strange, flinty, cigarette-stained narratives speed by, offering lots of surface tension and compelling deeper passions. - Guardian

A visceral collection … There’s an irresistible tautness to Tan’s writing style, and she looks at her characters with such clear-eyed sensitivity that, as a reader, you can barely tear your eyes away. - AnOther magazine

About The Author

May-Lan Tan

May-Lan Tan was born in Hong Kong, where her family had migrated from Indonesia. She lived in California before moving to London and now lives in Berlin.

She studied fine art at Goldsmiths and has worked professionally as a children’s party entertainer, commercial illustrator, personal chef, artist’s model, and medical secretary.

Her fiction has been published in Zoetrope: All-Story, The Atlas Review, Arete, and The Reader. Things to Make and Break was first published by CB Editions in 2014 when it was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.

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