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'Monk lives in Chinatown with her washed-up painter father. When Santa Coy—possible boyfriend, potential accomplice — enters their lives, an intoxicating hunger consumes their home. So begins a heady descent into art, casino resorts, drugs, vacant swimming pools, religion, pixelated tutorial videos, and senseless violence.
'In bursts of fizzing, staccato and claustrophobic prose, this modern Australian take on the classic hard-boiled novel bounces you between pulverised English, elastic Cantonese and the new dialect of a digitised world.
'Tip over into a subterranean noir of the most electronic generation.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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[Review] Pink Mountain on Locust Island
Melbourne
:
Bad Producer Productions
,
2019
23464563
2019
single work
review
— Review of Pink Mountain on Locust Island 2018 single work novel'Pink Mountain on Locust Island is both a coming of age story and modern noir, and in it Jamie Marina Lau (劉劍冰) demonstrates a new approach to experimental fiction.' (Introduction)
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Six Books that Shock, Delve Deeply and Destroy Pieties : Your Guide to the 2019 Stella Prize Shortlist
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 8 April 2019;
— Review of Little Gods 2018 single work novel ; The Bridge 2018 single work novel ; Pink Mountain on Locust Island 2018 single work novel ; The Erratics 2018 single work autobiography ; Too Much Lip 2018 single work novel ; Axiomatic 2018 single work prose -
Five Emerging Australian Authors Talk about Writing Their Breakthrough Novels
2019
single work
column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , January 2019;'Some of Australia's best known authors managed to reach literary fame with their debut novels: Kate Grenville with Lilian's Story, which won the Vogel Literary Award in 1984; Richard Flanagan with Death of a River Guide, which won several awards, including the National Fiction Award in 1996; and Andrew McGahan with Praise, which won the Vogel in 1991.' (Introduction)
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y
A Conversation with Jamie Marina Lau
Ellen Cregan
(interviewer),
2018
23467475
2018
single work
podcast
interview
'Hear our events and marketing coordinator Ellen Cregan in conversation with author Jamie Marina Lau about her startling debut novel, Pink Mountain on Locust Island.' (Production summary)
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Interview : Jamie Marina Lau
Minna Featherstone
(interviewer),
2018
single work
interview
— Appears in: Liminal , August 2018;'Jamie Marina Lau is a writer and artist. Her first novel, Pink Mountain on Locust Island, was published in April this year by Brow Books. Her music can be found under the pseudonym ZK king.
'Jamie Marina Lau talked to Minna Featherstone about filling in the blanks, the curiosity of the music industry, and writing Pink Mountain on Locust Island.'
Source: Abstract.
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Six Books that Shock, Delve Deeply and Destroy Pieties : Your Guide to the 2019 Stella Prize Shortlist
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 8 April 2019;
— Review of Little Gods 2018 single work novel ; The Bridge 2018 single work novel ; Pink Mountain on Locust Island 2018 single work novel ; The Erratics 2018 single work autobiography ; Too Much Lip 2018 single work novel ; Axiomatic 2018 single work prose -
y
[Review] Pink Mountain on Locust Island
Melbourne
:
Bad Producer Productions
,
2019
23464563
2019
single work
review
— Review of Pink Mountain on Locust Island 2018 single work novel'Pink Mountain on Locust Island is both a coming of age story and modern noir, and in it Jamie Marina Lau (劉劍冰) demonstrates a new approach to experimental fiction.' (Introduction)
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Interview : Jamie Marina Lau
Minna Featherstone
(interviewer),
2018
single work
interview
— Appears in: Liminal , August 2018;'Jamie Marina Lau is a writer and artist. Her first novel, Pink Mountain on Locust Island, was published in April this year by Brow Books. Her music can be found under the pseudonym ZK king.
'Jamie Marina Lau talked to Minna Featherstone about filling in the blanks, the curiosity of the music industry, and writing Pink Mountain on Locust Island.'
Source: Abstract.
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Five Emerging Australian Authors Talk about Writing Their Breakthrough Novels
2019
single work
column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , January 2019;'Some of Australia's best known authors managed to reach literary fame with their debut novels: Kate Grenville with Lilian's Story, which won the Vogel Literary Award in 1984; Richard Flanagan with Death of a River Guide, which won several awards, including the National Fiction Award in 1996; and Andrew McGahan with Praise, which won the Vogel in 1991.' (Introduction)
-
y
A Conversation with Jamie Marina Lau
Ellen Cregan
(interviewer),
2018
23467475
2018
single work
podcast
interview
'Hear our events and marketing coordinator Ellen Cregan in conversation with author Jamie Marina Lau about her startling debut novel, Pink Mountain on Locust Island.' (Production summary)
Awards
- 2019 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Fiction
- 2019 shortlisted ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
- 2019 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
- 2019 shortlisted The Stella Prize
- 2018 shortlisted Readings Prizes — Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
