pickGifts from my lovely friend @Sarz You are naughty but I love it. I finally have some time to do my nails in the holidays so the little kit is perfect. Ta xo Cheers to Litsy friends.
pickRiwoe‘s novella is a real achievement. She captures the internal life of the Fish Girl- her hopes, dreams, and fears, so concisely, but with such care. The strength of this novella, is not the characters, or even the excellent sense of place, but the themes. This is truly a narrative of colonial exploitation- the isolation of indigenous minorities from their cultures and families, and the horrendous violence wrought upon them by the coloniser.
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Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella prize for Australian woman writers.
This is a beautiful little novella inspired by a short-story by Somerset Maugham, The Four Dutchman. I don't think it is necessary to have read that story before approaching this but I do think reading it at some point would make an interesting study.
The writing is beautifully sensory, placing you immediately in the lush bright world of Java.
An author to watch.
Library haul!
The Fish Girl | 
