{"product_id":"9781771666411","title":"You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for Canada Reads 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of an AudioFile Earphones Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book Debut of 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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 begin telling folk tales 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 and philosophical questions, and further complicated by the woman's frequent unexplained disappearances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.\u003c\/em\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 Canadian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sheung-King (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Book*hug Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (UK) |  2020-10-27","offer_id":44151071047935,"sku":"9781771666411","price":20.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781771666411","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}