Reflection

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  • Published 20041207
  • ISBN: 9780733314544
  • Extent: 268 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm)

MARIAN IS AMERICAN, from Chicago. I’ve known her 15 years, ever since she arrived in Hong Kong. About five years ago she left Hong Kong and moved to Paris. Occasion­ally, she rings.

“I don’t know what I look like anymore,” she said during one conversation. I knew the feeling. It’s caused by having no mirrors – when you no longer see yourself reflected through the eyes of someone “just like you”.

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