TY  - BOOK
AU  - Norman,S.J.
TI  - Perma frost
SN  - 9780702263422 (paperback)
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - St Lucia, Qld.
PB  - UQP
KW  - Short stories
KW  - Country life
KW  - England
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - fast
KW  - Australia
KW  - Hokkaido (Japan)
KW  - [GENRE]
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - Print
KW  - Indigenous collection
N1  - Stepmother -- Permafrost -- Secondhand -- Whitehart -- Hinterhaus -- Unspeakable -- Playback
N2  - Permafrost explores the shifting spaces of desire, loss and longing, inverting and queering the gothic and romantic traditions, each story represents a different take on the concept of a haunting or the haunted. Though it ranges across themes and locations - from small-town Australia to Hokkaido to rural England - this collection is united by the power of the narratorial voice, with its auto-fictional resonances, dark wit and swagger. Whether recounting the confusion of a child trying to decipher their father and stepmother's new relationship, the surrealness of an after-hours tour of Auschwitz, or a journey to wintry Japan to reconnect with a former lover, Permafrost unsettles, transports and impresses in equal measure
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