A realist novel about dating apps and unrequited online love, set in fast-moving, modern ShanghaiIn modern-day China, a man has travelled to Shanghai on impulse to meet his online lover
Luna, but she refuses to see him and soon disappears without a trace. He tries to forget
her by immersing himself in dating apps, and also learns to appreciate the nuances within
everyday Chinese life while he adjusts himself to mainland China as a member of the greater overseas Chinese diaspora. As the seasons change he falls in love with a budding photographer named Sofia, but with traces of Luna constantly reappearing in his life, will he ever find a way out of his unquiet predicament? Unquiet Heart Soliloquy is Dano Chow's debut novel, a confessional account of one's turning to dating apps for comfort in times of loneliness, in the hope that one casual outing after another will somehow be enough to fulfil a generational desire for intimacy.
By:
Dano Chow Imprint: Penguin Random House SEA Country of Publication: Singapore Dimensions:
Height: 215mm,
Width: 136mm,
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 238g ISBN:9789815127058 ISBN 10: 9815127055 Pages: 208 Publication Date:10 October 2023 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Dano Chow is hopeful. He was born in 1990 in Batu Pahat, Malaysia and he has an MA in Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP). Unquiet Heart Soliloquy is his debut novel.