Free shipping on orders over $99
Pink Mountain on Locust Island

Pink Mountain on Locust Island

by Jamie Marina Lau
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/04/2018

Share This Book:

 
$27.99

An unpredictable and innovative debut novel from a provocative new voice in Australian fiction.

Embracing the noir tradition and featuring a prose style quite unlike any before, with references that will go both over your head and under your feet, Pink Mountain on Locust Island will flip readers upside down and turn your understanding of the world around around. Modernity, art, family, gender, drugs, music, adolescence, business, religion, internet cafes, food, strangers, aesthetics, vacations, fashion, desires, dreams, expectations, brown couches.

Pink Mountain on Locust Island is:

  • a subterranean noir of the most electronic generation – the pinkwhite bursts of a teenaged nomad;
  • a fizzing of the New Wave underground art province, with its melting pot of noise bands and Phife, amnesiac and digitalised bossa novas, and art installations about art installations; 
  • a 24-hour yank between pulverised English, elastic Cantonese and the newest, digitalised dialect of transcultural landscapes; 
  • a short novel narrated among the lumps of Monk’s daydreams, her violent, claustrophobic encounters, and her staccato movements through a hyperreal pop culture world that could only belong to our 21st century; 
  • all of the above.

Monk lives in Chinatown with her washed-up painter father. When Santa Coy - possible boyfriend, potential accomplice - enters their lives, an intoxicating hunger consumes their home. So begins a heady descent into art, casino resorts, drugs, vacant swimming pools, religion, pixelated tutorial videos, and senseless violence.

In bursts of fizzing, staccato and claustrophobic prose, this modern Australian take on the classic hard-boiled novel bounces you between pulverised English, elastic Cantonese and the new dialect of a digitised world.

Tip over into a subterranean noir of the most electronic generation.

ISBN:
9780994606884
9780994606884
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-04-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Brow Books
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
208
Dimensions (mm):
210x135mm

"Pink Mountain on Locust Island is bright, funny, and tender. Jamie Marina Lau's surreal and self-possessed prose reads like a teenage daydream."
Briohny Doyle, author of The Island Will Sink and Adult Fantasy

"Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau was a surprise delight. It's a first novel and it’s like nothing else I’ve read."
Louise Swinn, The Australian

"Lau's surreal prose captures the confusion of adolescence in the 21st century. Vivid, inventive descriptions of yum cha, high-school friendships and claustrophobic apartment living evoke the experience of growing up in a diasporic community and the sensory overload of being surrounded by people, yet still alone. A stylish yet moving glimpse into the loneliness of being a teenage girl, Pink Mountain on Locust Island heralds the arrival of an electric new Australian writer."
Kelsey Oldham, Books+Publishing

"This is a novel written for a generation of digital natives by one of their own, reflective of both their lived experience and their style of content engagement; yet it also nods to the literary on a deeper level. With its experimental form and innovative language, Pink Mountain On Locust Island is a superb example of the future of literary fiction."
Amanda McLeod, NSW Writers Centre

"Pink Mountain on Locust Island is real and magnetic, simple yet so full of life. If this is just the beginning, Australian literature has gained something special."
Jackie Smith

Jamie Marina Lau

Jamie Marina Lau is a multidisciplinary artist and the author of Pink Mountain on Locust Island which was shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize and several other key literary awards. With explorations focusing on language, Jamie's work meditates on a landscape exploring dis-location of culture and space.

Click 'Notify Me' to get an email alert when this item becomes available

You can find this item in:

Show more Show less

Reviews

Be the first to review Pink Mountain on Locust Island .