Perma frost
By: S J Norman
Publisher: UQP
Published: 2021
Place of publication: St Lucia, Qld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780702263422
Subjects: Australian fiction
Other titles: Permafrost
Description: Permafrost explores the shifting spaces of desire, loss and longing, inverting and queering the gothic and romantic traditions, each story represents a different take on the concept of a haunting or the haunted. Though it ranges across themes and locations - from small-town Australia to Hokkaido to rural England - this collection is united by the power of the narratorial voice, with its auto-fictional resonances, dark wit and swagger. Whether recounting the confusion of a child trying to decipher their father and stepmother's new relationship, the surrealness of an after-hours tour of Auschwitz, or a journey to wintry Japan to reconnect with a former lover, Permafrost unsettles, transports and impresses in equal measure.
Table of contents: title: Stepmother; title: Permafrost; title: Secondhand; title: Whitehart; title: Hinterhaus; title: Unspeakable; title: Playback.