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Two chapters from Bobis' first, and (at the time) unpublished, novel Fish-Hair Woman appear together as an appendix to A Novel-in-Waiting. The chapters are titled 'Bolodoy, the Terrible' and 'The Long Haul'.
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Fish-Hair Woman
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Spinifex Press
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2012
Z1828806
2012
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'1987. The Philippine government fights a total war against insurgency. The village of Iraya is militarised. The days are violent and the nights heavy with fireflies in the river where the dead are dumped.
'With her twelve-metre hair, Estrella, the Fish-Hair Woman, trawls corpses from the water that tastes of lemon grass. She falls in love with the Australian Tony McIntyre who disappears in the conflict. Ten years later, his son travels to Manilla to find his father.
'From the Philippines to Australia, Hawai'i, to evocations of colonial Spain, this transnational novel spins a dark, epic tale. Its storytelling is expansive, like the heart - How much can the heart accommodate? ... Only four chambers but with infinite space like memory, where there is room for those whom we do not love.' (From the publisher's website.)
