{"product_id":"lake-like-a-mirror-9781931883986","title":"Lake Like a Mirror","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: Two Lines Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Two Lines Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy an author described by critics as \"the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop,\" \u003cem\u003eLake Like a Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control.\u003c\/b\u003e Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanization, patriarchal structures and a theocratic government, these women find their lives twisted in disturbing ways. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn precise and 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, and poetry classes with accidentally charged politics--a world that is peopled with the ghosts of unsaid words, unmanaged desires and uncertain statuses, surreal and utterly true.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Two Lines Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45130123083927,"sku":"9781931883986","price":1214.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781931883986.webp?v=1767651915","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lake-like-a-mirror-9781931883986","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}