Permafrost

Name: Permafrost
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780702263422
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By SJ Norman

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Permafrost by SJ Norman is a compelling collection of short stories that explores themes of identity, belonging, and the haunting presence of the past. Each tale is intricately crafted, delving into the complexities of human relationships and the eerie spaces where reality blends with the supernatural. The stories are connected through an exploration of what lies beneath the surface, both in the landscapes the characters traverse and their internal emotional worlds.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy deeply atmospheric narratives that weave together themes of identity, memory, and the haunting intersections of past and present. It offers a poignant exploration of vulnerability and resilience, ideal for those who appreciate introspective, layered storytelling with a touch of the uncanny.

Permafrost

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Visual and performance artist, and winner of the inaugural Kill Your Darlings Manuscript Award, SJ Norman turns their hand to fiction with spectacular results.

This brilliant collection of short fiction explores the shifting spaces of desire, loss and longing. Inverting and queering the gothic and romantic traditions, each story represents a different take on the concept of a haunting or the haunted. Though it ranges across themes and locations—from small-town Australia to Hokkaido to rural England—Permafrost is united by the power of the narratorial voice, with its auto-fictional resonances, dark wit and swagger.

Whether recounting the confusion of a child trying to decipher their father and stepmother's new relationship, the surrealness of an after-hours tour of Auschwitz, or a journey to wintry Japan to reconnect with a former lover, Permafrost unsettles, transports and impresses in equal measure.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780702263422

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 September 2021

Country: Australia

Imprint: University of Queensland Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 266g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

SJ Norman is an artist, writer and curator. Their career has so far spanned seventeen years and has embraced a diversity of disciplines, including solo and ensemble performance, installation, sculpture, text, video and sound. Their work has been commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney, Performance Space New York, Venice International Performance Art Week, and the National Gallery of Australia, to name a few. They are the recipient of numerous awards for contemporary art, including a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship and an Australia Council Fellowship. Their writing has won or placed in numerous prizes, including the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award, the Peter Blazey Award, the Judith Wright Prize and the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. In 2019, they established Knowledge of Wounds, a global gathering of queer First Nations artists, which they co-curate with Joseph M Pierce. They are currently based between Sydney and New York.