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Yes, There Are No Scripts. So It Is Written in the Script

Ghost Cities by Siang Lu

August 15, 2025 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Siang Lu’s Ghost Cities is the winner of this year’s Miles Franklin Award, which is Australia’s most prestigious literary award. It had also been sitting on my reader long before it got nominated. Reading about Lu’s win was the kick in the pants I needed to pick the book up and give it read through. And I’m really quite ashamed that I hadn’t done it sooner.  Ghost Cities is an imaginative and bonkers novel weaving together two tangentially related plots. The first unfolds in a […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: BadChinese, cbr17bingo, China, Fiction, Miles Franklin Award, postmodern, Satire, Siang Lu, surreal

LittlePlat's CBR17 Review No:16 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: BadChinese, cbr17bingo, China, Fiction, Miles Franklin Award, postmodern, Satire, Siang Lu, surreal ·
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