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Yahp, Beth Crocodile Fury
Harpercollins September 1, 19 0-207-17055-X / 9780207170553 Paperback Very Good
First-novelist Yahp skillfully spins a yarn about her native Malaysia. The tale recounts the lives of three generations of women in a family--the narr ator, a cloistered convent school girl; the girl's unlucky mother, who does laundry for the convent; and the girl's grandmother, a servant to the rich man who had lived in the mansion that later became the convent. The grandm other stars in this tale, and shares her expertise on the topic of "ghostch asing," with her granddaughter: "Never fit your body into the natural curve s and hollows of the earth or rocks or trees for these are the resting plac es of spirits, who won't appreciate being sat on, or coming back to find yo u there." Yahp's lyrical novel blends sensory impressions and superstitious lore. While facts are repeated without moving the plot forward and aspects of the plot go unexplained (why is the girl's bullying school pal so impor tant to the grandmother?), the story vividly and rhythmically evokes a soci ety where Eastern traditions continuously clash with those imposed by the W est. Muses the girl about her history, "The stories we unearth are like the ruined fountains and garden statues we stumble over, showing only their br oken pieces, their missing bits."
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400.00 JPY
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