by Lydia Kwa · Planeta DeAgostini · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467416138
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«Un lugar llamado ausencia» is a novel by Lydia Kwa, published by Planeta DeAgostini in hardback (285 pages, in Spanish).
Wu Lan, a psychologist in Vancouver, reconstructs her past after her father's suicide and goes back to Singapore at the beginning of the 20th century. Her voice crosses with that of her mother and with that of Ah Choi and Chat Mui, young ah ku trapped in the networks of prostitution. A story about survival, friendship and the power of imagination to change reality.
The original work in English, «This Place Called Absence», was published in 2000; the work was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in the lesbian fiction category.
For readers of literary fiction set in Singapore and fiction with female voices.
