'Monk lives in Chinatown with her washed-up painter father. When Santa Coy—possible boyfriend, potential accomplice — enters their lives, an intoxicating hunger consumes their home. So begins a heady descent into art, casino resorts, drugs, vacant swimming pools, religion, pixelated tutorial videos, and senseless violence.
'In bursts of fizzing, staccato and claustrophobic prose, this modern Australian take on the classic hard-boiled novel bounces you between pulverised English, elastic Cantonese and the new dialect of a digitised world.
'Tip over into a subterranean noir of the most electronic generation.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
[Review] Pink Mountain on Locust Island
Melbourne
:
Bad Producer Productions
,
2019
23464563
2019
single work
review
'Pink Mountain on Locust Island is both a coming of age story and modern noir, and in it Jamie Marina Lau (劉劍冰) demonstrates a new approach to experimental fiction.' (Introduction)
'Some of Australia's best known authors managed to reach literary fame with their debut novels: Kate Grenville with Lilian's Story, which won the Vogel Literary Award in 1984; Richard Flanagan with Death of a River Guide, which won several awards, including the National Fiction Award in 1996; and Andrew McGahan with Praise, which won the Vogel in 1991.' (Introduction)
A Conversation with Jamie Marina Lau
Ellen Cregan
(interviewer),
2018
23467475
2018
single work
podcast
interview
'Hear our events and marketing coordinator Ellen Cregan in conversation with author Jamie Marina Lau about her startling debut novel, Pink Mountain on Locust Island.' (Production summary)
'Jamie Marina Lau is a writer and artist. Her first novel, Pink Mountain on Locust Island, was published in April this year by Brow Books. Her music can be found under the pseudonym ZK king.
'Jamie Marina Lau talked to Minna Featherstone about filling in the blanks, the curiosity of the music industry, and writing Pink Mountain on Locust Island.'
Source: Abstract.
[Review] Pink Mountain on Locust Island
Melbourne
:
Bad Producer Productions
,
2019
23464563
2019
single work
review
'Pink Mountain on Locust Island is both a coming of age story and modern noir, and in it Jamie Marina Lau (劉劍冰) demonstrates a new approach to experimental fiction.' (Introduction)
'Jamie Marina Lau is a writer and artist. Her first novel, Pink Mountain on Locust Island, was published in April this year by Brow Books. Her music can be found under the pseudonym ZK king.
'Jamie Marina Lau talked to Minna Featherstone about filling in the blanks, the curiosity of the music industry, and writing Pink Mountain on Locust Island.'
Source: Abstract.
'Some of Australia's best known authors managed to reach literary fame with their debut novels: Kate Grenville with Lilian's Story, which won the Vogel Literary Award in 1984; Richard Flanagan with Death of a River Guide, which won several awards, including the National Fiction Award in 1996; and Andrew McGahan with Praise, which won the Vogel in 1991.' (Introduction)
A Conversation with Jamie Marina Lau
Ellen Cregan
(interviewer),
2018
23467475
2018
single work
podcast
interview
'Hear our events and marketing coordinator Ellen Cregan in conversation with author Jamie Marina Lau about her startling debut novel, Pink Mountain on Locust Island.' (Production summary)
