Anguli Ma: A Gothic Tale

Author(s): Chi Vu

Fiction | Oz Lit | Melbourne in Words

Chi Vu takes the central figure in a traditional Buddhist folktale, a deranged killer who wears his victims’ fingers in a garland around his neck, and turns him into a menacing abbatoir worker who carries bloody chunks of meat home to his lodgings in plastic bags, in this suburban Gothic tale set in 1980s Melbourne, when the flight of Vietnamese refugees to Australia was at its height. The novella gives a compelling insight into the relations formed between refugees who have been displaced from their families or their communities, and lead isolated lives haunted by suspicion and fear. At the same time the novella’s macabre humour and surreal effects point to redemptive possibilities, in demonstrating how these old fears are played out and resolved in their new settings.

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Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781920882877
  • : Giramondo Publishing Co
  • : Giramondo Publishing Co
  • : February 2012
  • : 170 x 150 mm
  • : April 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Chi Vu
  • : Paperback
  • : A823.4
  • : 128