Permafrost: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022

Author(s): SJ Norman

Short Stories | Staff Picks

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.

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General Fields

  • : 9780702263422
  • : University of Queensland Press
  • : University of Queensland Press
  • : 0.29
  • : September 2020
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : SJ Norman
  • : Paperback
  • : 2110
  • : 256
  • : FYB