The Last Sky
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Publisher Description
Adrift in a failing marriage, Maya Wise is alone in a strange world far from home in this work of fiction. Intrigued by an elderly Chinese man carrying a caged nightingale, she begins to follow him through the streets and alleys of Hong Kong. Drawn to Ken Tiger and his painful tale of lost love in wartime Shanghai, Maya begins to piece together other stories, other histories from the world around her, and so comes to imagine a different future for herself, resulting in a moving meditation on exile, memory, and the ways in which we reconcile ourselves with loss.This revised edition is for book clubs and provides discussion notes at the end.
Customer Reviews
Reality vs imagination
A story of reality versus imagination, set during the leadup to the handover of Hong Kong in 1997. Australian academic and wife Maya Wise is adrift in her new life in Hong Kong; her coping tactic of reimagining her life and the lives of those she encounters is both hopeful and heartbreaking. Nelson's moving novel reads more like poetry than prose