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y separately published work icon Original Face single work   novel   thriller  
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Original Face
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Units Teaching this Work

Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Original Face Nicholas Jose , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2005 Z1219298 2005 single work novel thriller (taught in 1 units)

'The drama begins with a body dumped in south-western Sydney – skinned, with no face. Lewis Lin, taxi driver, photographer, recent arrival from Beijing, happens to be at the scene. With detectives Ginger Rogers and Shelley Swert in pursuit, Lin finds himself drawn into a deadly immigration racket, with a cast which includes a film-maker just in from LA, a Buddhist monk, a millionaire bachelor artist, a masseuse, a maniacal violinist, and a refugee assassin.

Part thriller, part ethnic noir, dark and comic by turns, Original Face offers a sensuous and highly coloured portrait of the jostling energies that make up life in the contemporary Australian city.

Drawing its title from an ancient Zen koan, the novel traces the complicated manoeuvres by which people mask their identities, and the accidental pathways by which these hidden selves come to light.'

Source: Author's website.

Honours Seminar 4 (English) University of Western Australia 2009 (Semester 1, Semester 2)
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