You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.

A 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.

You 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 Asian-Canadian literature. (From Book*Hug)

You Are Eating An Orange. You Are Naked.wason theCanada Reads2021 longlist.

You Are Eating An Orange. You Are Naked.is onthe shortlist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. The winners will be announced on Nov. 17, 2021.

Sheung-Kingis a writer born in Vancouver, raised in Hong Kong and currently living in Toronto.You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.is his first book.

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