The Fish Girl - Softcover

Riwoe, Mirandi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1925589064 ISBN 13: 9781925589061

Publisher: Booktopia Direct Pty Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

Sparked by the description of a 'Malay trollope' in W. Somerset Maugham's story, 'The Four Dutchmen', Mirandi Riwoe's novella, The Fish Girl, tells of an Indonesian girl whose life is changed irrevocably when she moves from a small fishing village to work in the house of a Dutch merchant. There she finds both hardship and tenderness as her traditional past and colonial present collide.

Told with an exquisitely restrained voice and coloured with lush description, this moving book will stay with you long after the last page.

About this title

About the Author

Mirandi Riwoe is a Brisbane-based writer. She has been shortlisted for Overland's Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, the Josephine Ulrick Short Story Prize and the Luke Bitmead Bursary. She has also been longlisted for the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize and CWA (UK) dagger awards. Her work has appeared in Review of Australian Fiction, Rex, Peril and Shibboleth and Other Stories. Her first novel, She be Damned, will be released by Legend Press (UK) in 2017. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies (QUT).

Edition details

• Publisher: Booktopia Direct Pty Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925589064
• ISBN 13: 9781925589061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110