{"product_id":"you-are-eating-an-orange-you-are-naked-9781771666411","title":"You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for CBC Canada Reads 2021\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book Debut of 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHEUNG-KING\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and educator originally from Hong Kong. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePRISM International, The Shanghai Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Humber Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. His debut book, \u003ci\u003eYou Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked., \u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and was longlisted for CBC Canada Reads. He currently lives in China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book*hug Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50546023170322,"sku":"9781771666411","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e1d2751b-78e3-4337-9842-870c8d0ea64e.jpg?v=1731551318","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/you-are-eating-an-orange-you-are-naked-9781771666411","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}