Delayed Rays of a Star: Amanda Lee Koe - Softcover

Koe, Amanda Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1526609029 ISBN 13: 9781526609021

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

CHOSEN AS ONE OF 2019'S MOST ANTICIPATED TITLES FOR BY ELLE, THILLIST, USA TODAY, LITHUB, KIRKUS AND LA TIMES

'Ambitious and dazzling ... entertaining and thought-provoking too' Daily Mail

'Impressive' The Times

'Voraciously intelligent, heartrending ... Amanda Lee Koe is a brilliant writer' Garth Greenwell
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When a photographer captures Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong and Leni Riefenstahl in one frame at a party in Berlin in 1928, no one realizes the extent to which their lives will reflect the tumultuous decades that follow.

Marlene crosses the Atlantic to find fame in Hollywood, the town that eats out of the palm of her hand till her wrinkles begin to show. After establishing her position as a filmmaker, Leni watches her fame turn to notoriety following the defeat of Nazi Germany. In 90 per cent of the films she appears in, the side characters played by Anna May must die so the white male lead can be returned to his white paramour on the screen. In the murky world these women navigate, their choices will be held up to the test of time. And the real question is, how much has anything changed?

This fierce and exquisite debut about womanhood, ambition, and art, played out against the shifting political tides of the twentieth century, introduces a mesmerizing new literary talent for our times.

About this title

About the Author

Amanda Lee Koe was the fiction editor of Esquire Singapore, an honorary fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, the recipient of Columbia University's Henfield Prize, and the youngest winner of the Singapore Literature Prize. Born in Singapore, she lives in New York. This is her first novel.

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From the Back Cover

An original and important new voice in fiction today, the youngest winner of the Singapore Literary prize

With savage discernment and sparkling wit, Delayed Rays of a Star explores sexuality, women and ageing, and the price of Hollywood stardom

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526609029
• ISBN 13: 9781526609021
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400