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You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. by Sheung-King

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You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.

by Sheung-King

Narrator Kenny Wong

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Length 4 hours 4 minutes

Language English

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“This book is a kaleidoscope of stark, unusual and seemingly fleeting images, dialogues, and stories that suddenly start fitting all together like a curious puzzle the longer you read/listen. Its end result: an elegant and dreamlike meditation on love, culture and how to be in this life. The style is so simple and easy to follow, but reveals a profound meaning, which will please fans of authors like Haruki Murakami or Ben Lerner. Kenny Wong’s narration is smooth yet expressive without being overly dramatized, so listening to this book feels like having a quiet chat with a friend late at night. Delightful!”
— Ilya • Librairie Saga Bookstore

Summary

Finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
Finalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
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.

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