Name: Pink Mountain on Locust Island
ISBN: 9781566895941

Jamie Marina Lau

Blending digital fever dream and hard-boiled noir in bursts of claustrophobic prose, a teenager follows her maybe-boyfriend into the seedy corners of the art world.

Pink Mountain on Locust Island

Monk lives in Chinatown with her washed-up painter father. When Santa Coy—possible boyfriend, potential accomplice—enters their lives, an intoxicating hunger consumes their home. So begins a heady descent into art, casino resorts, drugs, vacant swimming pools, religion, pixelated tutorial videos, and senseless violence. In bursts of fizzing, staccato and claustrophobic prose, this modern Australian take on the classic hard-boiled novel bounces you between pulverised English, elastic Cantonese and the new dialect of a digitised world. Tip over into a subterranean noir of the most electronic generation.

Pink Mountain on Locust Island

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