Permafrost: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022
Author(s): SJ Norman
Fiction | Stella Prize 2022 Longlist
This brilliant collection of short fiction explores the shifting spaces of desire, loss and longing. Inverting and queering the gothic and romantic traditions, each story represents a different take on the concept of a haunting or the haunted. Though it ranges across themes and locations - from small-town Australia to Hokkaido to rural England - Permafrost is united by the power of the narratorial voice, with its auto-fictional resonances, dark wit and swagger. Whether recounting the confusion of a child trying to decipher their father and stepmother's new relationship, the surrealness of an after-hours tour of Auschwitz, or a journey to wintry Japan to reconnect with a former lover, Permafrost unsettles, transports and impresses in equal measure.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : University of Queensland Press
- : University of Queensland Press
- : 0.29
- : 01 October 2020
- : 1.6 Centimeters X 15.2 Centimeters X 22.6 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : SJ Norman
- : Paperback
- : 2110
- : 256