{"product_id":"you-are-eating-an-orange-you-are-naked","title":"You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.","description":"Finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction\nFinalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award\nLonglisted for CBC Canada Reads 2021\nA Globe and Mail Best Book Debut of 2020\nA young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad―to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo―often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each other, perhaps as a way to fill the undefined space between them. Theirs is a comic and enigmatic relationship in which emotions are often muted and sometimes masked by verbal play and philosophical questions, and further complicated by the woman's frequent unexplained disappearances.\nYou Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. is an intimate novel of memory and longing that challenges Western tropes and Orientalism. Embracing the playful surrealism of Haruki Murakami and the atmospheric narratives of filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, Sheung-King's debut is at once lyrical and punctuated, and wholly unique, and marks the arrival of a bold new voice in Canadian literature.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1771666412\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1771666412.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Sheung-King\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43242369318973,"sku":"BVV.1771666412.VG","price":11.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1771666412-0.jpg?v=1780262373","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/you-are-eating-an-orange-you-are-naked","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}