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'The title of Nicholas Jose’s new collection of stories refers to a form of Chinese painting that tricks the eye into thinking what it sees is a collage of fragments. Bapo literally means ‘eight broken’, where eight is a Chinese lucky number and ‘broken’ implies that luck has run out – though the term also suggests that there’s another kind of luck, in simply surviving, and being able to hold the pieces of one’s life together in some sort of order.
'Jose’s stories feature a cast of characters affected by time or chance in different ways, artists, diplomats, entrepreneurs, immigrants, families at the crossroads. Many explore Australia’s relationship to China or have echoes of China in them; others dwell on the qualities of memory, resilience, play and adventure – qualities which are implicit in the form of bapo, and characteristic of Jose’s writing as a whole. (Publication summary)
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Launched at Gleebooks, Sydney, Thursday 27 November 2014, with Nicholas Jose in conversation with Beth Yahp.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Nicholas Jose, Bapo
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 8 no. 1 2015;
— Review of Bapo 2014 selected work short story -
Eight Broken and the Unspoken : A Peephole into a Love Affair with China
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 29 no. 1 2015; (p. 233-235)
— Review of Bapo 2014 selected work short story -
Book Review: Bapo by Nicholas Jose
2015
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The NSW Writers' Centre Blog
— Review of Bapo 2014 selected work short story -
Gay Lynch Reviews Bapo by Nicholas Jose
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , April no. 17 2015;
— Review of Bapo 2014 selected work short story -
Bapo by Nicholas Jose
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 367 2014; (p. 27)
— Review of Bapo 2014 selected work short story
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A Fragmentary Collection That Fails to Maintain Focus
A Fragmentary Collection Echoes Chinese Whispers
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 22 November 2014; (p. 29) The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 November 2014; (p. 37)
— Review of Bapo 2014 selected work short story -
Nicholas Jose : Bapo
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , December 2014;
— Review of Bapo 2014 selected work short story -
Well Read
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 November 2014; (p. 27)
— Review of Bapo 2014 selected work short story -
Bapo by Nicholas Jose
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 367 2014; (p. 27)
— Review of Bapo 2014 selected work short story -
Gay Lynch Reviews Bapo by Nicholas Jose
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , April no. 17 2015;
— Review of Bapo 2014 selected work short story