https://www.scmp.com/rss/507595/feed Aoife Cantrill is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford. She writes for the Asian Review of Books. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Bestiary by K-Ming Chang, One World. Bestiary opens with a quest for lost gold. Agong, to whom the gold belongs, has no recollection of where he stashed the two bars. His family upturns the garden in pursuit of the misplaced treasure, first by digging holes, then with a metal detector. Agong’s two daughters run the machine over his sleeping body, thinking he might have ingested the gold and hidden it in his bowels, before they realise: “There’s nothing inside him we can spend, not unless grief... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3106479/bestiary-k-ming-changs-debut-novel-explores-myths?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3106479/bestiary-k-ming-changs-debut-novel-explores-myths?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Oct 2020 12:45:09 +0000