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A DREAM WANTS WAKING
Chinese science fiction has been described by The New York Times as having conquered America following the incredible successes of authors in translation like Cixin Liu and Hao Jingfang in the North American market. Meanwhile, diasporic authors have been bringing aspects of this tradition, such as the chaotic timelines and wildly imaginative fabulism, to English-language readers to great acclaim from Larissa Lai's multi-award-winning Salt Fish Girl to recent Hugo award winner The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo. A Dream Wants Waking by Lydia Kwa follows in the footsteps of these accomplished books and traditions.
This literary speculative novel interweaves narratives from various times and places set in an alternate China of the past and future. The main protagonist is Yinhe, a female-presenting half-human, half-fox who has reincarnated several times, with the purpose of performing good deeds and aiding others.
Yinhe is tasked with wresting a precious, magical drawing from a powerful demon. This drawing has the potential to liberate a class of enslaved chimeric, if Yinhe is able to get it into the right hands. Yinhe is told that if she is able to complete this daunting task, she will be richly rewarded she will be reunited with Ling, a lover whose soul she lost contact with more than a thousand years earlier.
A Dream Wants Waking draws on and subverts mythological tropes in oral and classical Chinese mythology and literature. The novel poses timely questions about the nature of consciousness and the transgressive and transformative power of dreaming, and of dismantling dualities imposed by forces of political and social oppression.
LYDIA KWA was born in Singapore but moved to Canada as a student in 1980. Kwa has published two books of poetry and four novels. A third book of poetry will be published by Gordon Hill Press in Fall 2024. She won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize in 2018, and her novels have been nominated for several awards, including the Lambda Literary Award for Fiction.
This literary speculative novel interweaves narratives from various times and places set in an alternate China of the past and future. The main protagonist is Yinhe, a female-presenting half-human, half-fox who has reincarnated several times, with the purpose of performing good deeds and aiding others.
Yinhe is tasked with wresting a precious, magical drawing from a powerful demon. This drawing has the potential to liberate a class of enslaved chimeric, if Yinhe is able to get it into the right hands. Yinhe is told that if she is able to complete this daunting task, she will be richly rewarded she will be reunited with Ling, a lover whose soul she lost contact with more than a thousand years earlier.
A Dream Wants Waking draws on and subverts mythological tropes in oral and classical Chinese mythology and literature. The novel poses timely questions about the nature of consciousness and the transgressive and transformative power of dreaming, and of dismantling dualities imposed by forces of political and social oppression.
LYDIA KWA was born in Singapore but moved to Canada as a student in 1980. Kwa has published two books of poetry and four novels. A third book of poetry will be published by Gordon Hill Press in Fall 2024. She won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize in 2018, and her novels have been nominated for several awards, including the Lambda Literary Award for Fiction.
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