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Fish hair woman / Merlinda Bobis.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781876756970 (pbk.)
Name	Bobis, Merlinda C. (Merlinda Carullo)
Title	Fish hair woman / Merlinda Bobis.
Published	North Melbourne, Vic. : Spinifex Press, 2012.
Description	303 p. : port. ; 23 cm.
Summary	It's 1987. The Philippine government fights a total war against insurgency. The village of Iraya is militarised. The days are violent and the nights heavy with fireflies in the river where the dead are dumped. With her twelve-metre hair, Estrella, the Fish-hair Woman, trawls corpses from the water that tastes of lemongrass. She falls in love with the Australian Tony McIntyre who disappears in the conflict. Ten years later, his son travels to Manila to find his father. From the Philippines to Australia, Hawai'i, to evocations of colonial Spain, this transnational novel spins a dark, epic tale. Its storytelling is expansive, like the heart - How much can the heart accommodate?...Only four chambers but with infinite space like memory, where there is room even for those whom we do not love.
Additional form note	Also available online.
Subjects	Australian fiction
	War -- Fiction.
	Philippines -- Fiction
Genre	Romance fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Australian fiction . Philippines -- Fiction . Romance fiction . War fiction . See Also: Australian literature . Children's stories, Australian . Science fiction, Australian . Short stories, Australian . Authors: Bobis, Merlinda C. (Merlinda Carullo) .