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082 1 _a821.9 CHA
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100 1 _aChan, Mary Jean
245 1 0 _aFlèche
_c/ Mary Jean Chan
260 _aLondon
_b: Faber & Faber
_c, 2019
300 _a78 p.
_c; 21 cm
520 _aCentral to the collection is the figure of the poet's mother, whose fragmented memories of political turmoil in twentieth-century China are sensitively threaded through the book in an eight-part poetic sequence, combined with recollections from Chan's childhood.
546 _aEnglish
586 _aCosta Book Award shorlist
650 1 4 _aPoetry
942 _cMO
999 _c251555
_d251555