You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Nak..., SheungKing
You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Nak..., SheungKing
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You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.

Author: Sheung-King

Narrator: Kenny Wong

Unabridged: 4 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Book*hug Press

Published: 05/05/2021


Synopsis

Finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2021 A Globe and Mail Best Book Debut of 2020 A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad—to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo—often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each other, perhaps as a way to fill the undefined space between them. Theirs is a comic and enigmatic relationship in which emotions are often muted and sometimes masked by verbal play and philosophical questions, and further complicated by the woman's frequent unexplained disappearances. You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. is an intimate novel of memory and longing that challenges Western tropes and Orientalism. Embracing the playful surrealism of Haruki Murakami and the atmospheric narratives of filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, Sheung-King's debut is at once lyrical and punctuated, and wholly unique, and marks the arrival of a bold new voice in Canadian literature.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on June 27, 2022

This book is odd. Not just because of that title (although, sheesh), but because the most interesting parts of it are actually from other stories and books. The original content here: Meh. The analyses of other works and summaries of folktales: Cool, fun, I love em. I mean, it's not that crazy, and a......more

Goodreads review by Talia on May 15, 2021

I loved this book. It made me miss my girlfriend so much. Not because she's anything like you, but because love feels like buying groceries and taking walks and having conversations in the bathtub. I loved this book. Every story, every chapter, felt like the few times I have managed to eat ice cream......more

Goodreads review by David on May 19, 2021

It's a confident debut that namedrops Goethe, Nietzsche, Judith Butler, Ai WeiWei and Mo Yen. It was inspired by the films of Wong Kar-wai and written as part of Sheung King's Masters thesis - and despite all this, avoids coming across as insufferably pretentious. That doesn't make it any less chall......more

Goodreads review by daph pink ♡ on December 27, 2022

When you read the book's title, you can tell right away that it's not an average book; it's something different, something melancholy, and when you read the first line, which mentions one of your all-time favourite movies, you are immediately drawn in. This book might be good or bad. Either too litt......more

Goodreads review by Peter on January 19, 2021

Wow. This is not at all what I was expecting. I wasn't in the mood for a book like this. I was tired on a Friday evening. And I started reading and the book totally changed my mood. It was perfect. I read most of it in one sitting. So, so good. And different. I feel as though more people should be t......more