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0 reviews“Ho’s stories are powerfully unsettling not because they are strange, but because, especially for Malaysian readers, they are so familiar & real… Natascha Bruce’s masterful translation brings Ho’s stories to life in all their brilliance… While [Ho’s] subject matter mostly revolves around contemporary Malaysia & while she evidently draws on elements of Chinese modernist literature, Ho’s style evokes the work of European modernists, including Franz Kafka & Italo Calvino, 2 writers she has mentioned as major influences on her work.” —Mekong Review
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By an author described by critics as “the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop,” Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanization, patriarchal structures & a theocratic government, these women find their lives twisted in disturbing ways.
In precise & disquieting prose, Ho Sok Fong draws her readers into a richly atmospheric world of naked sleepwalkers in a rehabilitation center for wayward Muslims, mysterious wooden boxes, gossip in unlicensed hairdressers, hotels with amnesiac guests, & poetry classes with accidentally charged politics—a world that is peopled with the ghosts of unsaid words, unmanaged desires & uncertain statuses, surreal & utterly true
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Ho Sok Fong is the author of Maze Carpet. Her literary awards include the Chiu Ko Fiction Prize (2015), the 25th China Times Short Story Prize, & the 30th United Press Short Story Prize. She has a PhD in Chinese Language & Literature from NTU Singapore.
Natascha Bruce translates fiction from Chinese. Her work includes Lonely Face by Yeng Pway Ngon, Bloodline by Patigül, Lake Like a Mirror by Ho Sok Fong, & Mystery Train by Can Xue. Her translation of Dorothy Tse's poem "Cloth Birds" was a winner of the 2019 Words Without Borders Poems in Translation Prize.
