{"product_id":"you-are-eating-an-orange-you-are-naked-9781771666411","title":"You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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 begins telling folktales 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, philosophical questions, and further complicated by the woman's frequent unexplained disappearances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 Asian-Canadian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eYou Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sheung-King has written a wonderfully unexpected and maverick love story but also a novel of ideas that hopscotches between Toronto, Macau, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Prague. It is enchanting, funny, and a joy to read.\" --Kyo Maclear, author of \u003ci\u003eBirds Art Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Book*hug Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771666411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.00d","brand":"Sheung-King","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36668342010012,"sku":"9781771666411","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_43e204f6-38cf-43a5-a7f7-dab5d2c7f944.jpg?v=1603917288","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/you-are-eating-an-orange-you-are-naked-9781771666411","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}