The Fish Girl
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Winner of the 2017 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize 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.
Author: Mirandi Riwoe
Format: Paperback, 210 pages, 128mm x 198mm
Published: 2017, Brio Books, Australia
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
Winner of the 2017 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize 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.
The Fish Girl