Ghost Cities and Ghost Futures
Sat
11
Sat 11 May 1:30 PM
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State Library Theatrette
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
General Admission
60 Mins
May
Daring new works by Siang Lu and Laura Jean McKay push the limits of reality to explore modernity and our future.
Lu follows up his prize-winning debut The Whitewash with Ghost Cities, inspired by the vacant megacities of China. It explores the absurdities of life today with imagination and allegorical flair, drawing comparison to Haruki Murakami and Jennifer Egan.
McKay returns after her Arthur C Clarke Award–winning The Animals in that Country with Gunflower, a surreal and provocative story collection that shows the world as it is and how it could be, earning praise as ‘startling, beautiful and dangerous’ (Robbie Arnott, Limberlost).
They appear in conversation with Sofija Stefanovic.
Lu follows up his prize-winning debut The Whitewash with Ghost Cities, inspired by the vacant megacities of China. It explores the absurdities of life today with imagination and allegorical flair, drawing comparison to Haruki Murakami and Jennifer Egan.
McKay returns after her Arthur C Clarke Award–winning The Animals in that Country with Gunflower, a surreal and provocative story collection that shows the world as it is and how it could be, earning praise as ‘startling, beautiful and dangerous’ (Robbie Arnott, Limberlost).
They appear in conversation with Sofija Stefanovic.
May