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050 00 $aPR9199.3.L2815$bS35 2002
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055 3 $aPS8573 A3775$bS24 2002
055 3 $aPR9199.3.L2815$bS24 2002
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100 1 $aLai, Larissa,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSalt fish girl :$ba novel /$cLarissa Lai.
264 1 $aToronto :$bThomas Allen Publishers,$c[2002]
264 4 $c©2002
300 $a269 pages ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
386 $aVancouverites
386 $aBritish Columbians$2lcdgt
386 $aCanadians$2lcdgt
386 $aAsian Canadians$2lcdgt
386 $aWomen$2lcdgt
490 1 $aBooks of merit
520 $a"... a sci-fi, fantasy, critical social commentary, poetry, and product of the postmodern. Calling this an 'Asian book' or a 'woman's book' limits its scope and depth, a book that delves into memory, both personal and historical. It is also a creative challenge to conventional discussions on immigration and geographic/cultural displacement by exposing the power dynamics in the process. At the same time, however, the circular setup of the novel, the watery motifs, and gendered violence situates the book within women's experiences. Salt fish girl is also laden with loss, denial, forgetting and abandonment that is a common thread in an asian diasporic experience. Larissa Lai's poetic and lucid writing style fits so well with the fantastical yet tactile tone of the book. It is dream-like and yet feels intensely real. A delightful find. ... story about two Asian women -one a shapeshifter and the other obsessed with scent and her dead mother - who lived in very different times, but are somehow related ... And as a former Vancouverite, I also appreciated the book's run-down Pacific edge of the future setting."--Amazon.com reviews.
520 $a"Salt Fish Girl" is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form through time and place. Told in the beguiling voice of a narrator who is fish, snake, girl, and woman - all of whom must struggle against adversity for survival - the novel is set alternately in nineteenth-century China and in a futuristic Pacific Northwest. At turns whimsical and wry, "Salt Fish Girl" intertwines the story of Nu Wa, the shape-shifter, and that of Miranda, a troubled young girl living in the walled city of Serendipity circa 2044.
650 0 $aSpace and time$vFiction.
651 0 $aChina$xSocial life and customs$y19th century$vFiction.
651 0 $aNorthwest, Pacific$vFiction.
650 7 $aFantasy fiction, Canadian.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00920743
650 7 $aMagic realism (Literature)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01005504
650 7 $aManners and customs.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01007815
650 7 $aSpace and time.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01127622
651 7 $aChina.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01206073
651 7 $aPacific Northwest.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01242543
650 5 $aAuthors, Canadian (English)$y20th century.
648 7 $a1800-1899$2fast
655 7 $aNovels.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01921742
655 7 $aMagic realist fiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01922459
655 7 $aFiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423787
655 7 $aFantasy fiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01726607
655 7 $aNovels.$2lcgft
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830 0 $aBooks of merit.
852 00 $bbar$hPR9199.3.L2815$iS35 2002
852 00 $bbar$hPR9199.3.L2815$iS35 2002