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'The Red Pearl and Other Stories is an invitation from an idiosyncratic but endearing bunch of misfits and outsiders to travel to emotional sites just beyond our GPS coordinates. Welcome to Kuala Lumpur, Paris, Namche Bazaar - but also to unnamed, weirdly recognizable spaces of desire, anxiety or nightmare. Here, race riots unfold in 1960s Malaysia; an 'Asian' student faces 'Go home' graffiti on incessant train rides around Sydney; dogs in love twirl and tumble in the high mountains of Nepal. Here, too, is the parallel Gothic world of the Shanghai Bar, where an Orientalist seductress bites back; and the concrete world of expatriate Kuala Lumpur where Dragon Princes and spirit travellers can also be found. Here is a vision of Sydney at its mythical best: golden, shaded in jacaranda blossoms and offering benevolent asylum to an array of newcomers and old hands. Moving between genres and cultures, the stories in this collection capture moments of intensity and yearning, points of turbulence or rest in the lives of characters who inhabit a globalised world. Their quest is for new arrangements of family, home, friendship and workplaces; new ways of living and loving in a rapidly changing world. The Red Pearl and Other Stories is award-winning novelist Beth Yahp's first collection of short stories.' (Publication summary)
Notes
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"This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body." -- Publication details.
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Dedication:
For my sisters
Amy, Sarah and Rosemary
And my other sisters
Margo, Kyle and Cath
And my lovely nieces
Kaya and Reina
Contents
- The Other Room, single work short story fantasy (p. 9-14)
- In 1969, single work short story (p. 15-27)
- Homeland, single work prose (p. 28-39)
- The Red Pearl, single work short story (p. 40-55)
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The Pursuit of Happiness,
single work
short story
young adult
Based on the idea of happiness as a fundamental, constitutional right, and the effect this pursuit might have on others.
- Point of No Return, single work short story (p. 75-115)
- Thursdays, single work short story (p. 116-128)
- The Beautiful Hour, extract novel (p. 129-147)
- So We Walked Down Abercrombie Street, single work short story (p. 147-164)
- On Rose Street, single work short story (p. 165-171)
- Time and Again, single work short story (p. 172-194)
- Dogs in Love, single work short story (p. 195-211)
- Afterword :Occasional Stories That Scrape at the Heart, single work essay (p. 212-217)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Afterword :Occasional Stories That Scrape at the Heart
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Red Pearl and Other Stories 2017; (p. 212-217)
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Afterword :Occasional Stories That Scrape at the Heart
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Red Pearl and Other Stories 2017; (p. 212-217)
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Kuala Lumpur,
cMalaysia,cSoutheast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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Paris,
cFrance,cWestern Europe, Europe,
- Sydney, New South Wales,