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Gunk Baby
- Author
- Jamie Marina Lau
- Narrator
- Anthea Greco
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 13 December 2022
- Run Time
- 10 hours 59 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The suburbs of Par Mars. Two shopping centers, rows of estates, and thematically designed neighborhoods.
Twenty-four-year-old Leen is going to open an ear-cleaning and massage studio in the Topic Heights Shopping Centre, taking her mother’s Chinese ritual to the West to bring people back to their bodies.
But something is not quite right in Par Mars. Managers are being attacked, and when Leen befriends Jean Paul, a pharmacist who is obsessed with a cryptic online forum, she finds herself involved in a community that is intent on disrupting the routines of capitalism in increasingly troubling ways.
With a fierce intellect and masterful storytelling, Jamie Marina Lau brings to life a world that is devastatingly close to our own. Taking aim at consumerism and class, orientalism and the Zen movement, violence and middle-class boredom, Gunk Baby is inventive, unforgettable, and from a voice younger, newer, and more critical than most.
Critics Review
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“Taking aim at consumerism, class,and orientalism, Gunk Baby is an original and unforgettable read.”
Cosmopolitan
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“A dissociative meditation on a world that has come to feel increasingly meaningless.”
The Guardian (London)
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“Speaks to the disconnect of the present generation and to the bleak, capital-driven path humanity took to get there. An audacious, nihilistic novel.”
Australia Book Review
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“A disorienting and sinister consumerist dystopia. Gunk Baby is the blackest sort of satire on post-industrial anomie, though it has a sharp sense of intellectual playfulness too,”
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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“Funny, bold, capacious…this book mirrors modern life.”
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Details
- Author
- Jamie Marina Lau
- Narrator
- Anthea Greco
- Duration
- 10 hours 59 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 December 2022
- ISBN
- 9798212231879
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Narrative theme: Sense of place, Humour, Narrative theme: Coming of age
Synopsis
The suburbs of Par Mars. Two shopping centers, rows of estates, and thematically designed neighborhoods.Twenty-four-year-old Leen is going to open an ear-cleaning and massage studio in the Topic Heights Shopping Centre, taking her mother’s Chinese ritual to the West to bring people back to their bodies.But something is not quite right in Par Mars. Managers are being attacked, and when Leen befriends Jean Paul, a pharmacist who is obsessed with a cryptic online forum, she finds herself involved in a community that is intent on disrupting the routines of capitalism in increasingly troubling ways.With a fierce intellect and masterful storytelling, Jamie Marina Lau brings to life a world that is devastatingly close to our own. Taking aim at consumerism and class, orientalism and the Zen movement, violence and middle-class boredom, Gunk Baby is inventive, unforgettable, and from a voice younger, newer, and more critical than most.
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