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Virtual Lotus: Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia »
Authors: Teri Shaffer Yamada
ISBN-13: 9780472097890, ISBN-10: 047209789X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Date Published: April 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Teri Shaffer Yamada
Book Synopsis
This winning collection of short stories poignantly illustrates contemporary life in Southeast Asia
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Prologue | ||
| Thadun | 4 | |
| Clean, Clear Water | 11 | |
| An Umbrella | 18 | |
| An Unanswerable Question | 25 | |
| Just a Human Being | 39 | |
| A Khmer Policeman's Story: A Goddamn Rich Man of the New Era | 41 | |
| My Sister | 45 | |
| The Silent Center of Life's Day | 56 | |
| Interview with Ravana | 70 | |
| The Mysterious Shooter Trilogy: (1) "Killing Song"; (2) "The Sound of Rain on Roof Tiles"; (3) "Grrrr!" | 74 | |
| The Purification of Sita | 96 | |
| Death Price | 105 | |
| A Bar at the Edge of a Cemetery | 108 | |
| The Kling-Kling Woman | 119 | |
| Two Brothers | 130 | |
| Delirium | 137 | |
| Dance of the Bees | 146 | |
| The Plankway | 158 | |
| Foolish | 165 | |
| A Personal History of an Island | 173 | |
| Sex, Size and Ginseng | 178 | |
| Painting the Eye | 182 | |
| And the Grass Is Trampled | 194 | |
| Sita Puts Out the Fire | 201 | |
| The Family in the Street | 210 | |
| The Painting | 221 | |
| The Music Child | 236 | |
| The Mayor of the Roses | 254 | |
| Mother Lily and the Mail-Order Groom | 262 | |
| Tu Ben the Actor | 272 | |
| You Must Live | 278 | |
| Unsettled | 284 | |
| The Story of an Actress | 298 | |
| Glossary | 321 | |
| Suggested Readings | 325 | |
| Notes on Translators | 331 |
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