![]() The pool of grief, and of joy, is yours, mine, ours. What is fact, what is fiction? Luke meets Stella, who could be Tony's lover - or the Fish-Hair Woman? But where is Tony? Whose story is being told? Who is telling the story? Poetic and eclectic in style, this epic tale threads a multitude of voices and stories from the Philippines to Australia, to Hawai'i, and to the reader's world. On arrival he is caught in a web of betrayal that spins into the dark, magical tale of the manuscript. ![]() Now at nineteen, he travels to the Philippines because his father is supposedly dying. ![]() She falls in love with the visiting Australian writer Tony McIntyre who disappears in the conflict. Ten years later, his son Luke is reading this story in a mysterious manuscript sent to Australia with love letters. With her twelve-metre hair, Estrella the Fish-Hair Woman trawls the corpses from the water, which now tastes of lemongrass. The days are violent and the nights heavy with fireflies in the river where the dead are dumped. In 1987 the Philippine government fights a total war against communist insurgency. Ten years later, his son Luke is reading this story in a mysterious manuscript sent to Australia with love letters. She falls in love with the visiting Australian writer Tony McIntyre before he disappears in the conflict. ![]() Fish-Hair Woman is a novel of many rooms running between love and war. With her 12-meter hair, the fish-hair woman Estrella trawls the corpses from the water, which now tastes of lemongrass. ![]()
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