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1 month ago | 
artshub.com.au | Dylin Hardcastle |Mykaela Saunders |Melanie Cheng |Michelle de Kretser |Thuy On
Now in its 30th year, the Stella Prize has just announced its longlist for 2025, appropriately enough in the surrounds of the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden at the Adelaide Festival as part of Writers’ Week. This year the Stella – worth $60,000 – received over 180 entries, with the judging panel comprising Astrid Edwards (chair), Debra Dank, Leah Jing McIntosh, Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Rick Morton.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
daily-tribune.com | Melanie Cheng |Maren Longbella
The epigraph of Melanie Cheng’s novel “The Burrow” comes from an unfinished Franz Kafka short story with the same title: “The most beautiful thing about my burrow is the stillness. Of course, that is deceptive.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
bostonherald.com | Maren Longbella |Melanie Cheng
The epigraph of Melanie Cheng’s novel “The Burrow” comes from an unfinished Franz Kafka short story with the same title: “The most beautiful thing about my burrow is the stillness. Of course, that is deceptive. At any moment it may be shattered and then all will be over.”Kafka’s work about an unidentified animal, barricaded underground against an unknown enemy, sets the tone, as epigraphs are wont to do.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
kansascity.com | Melanie Cheng
The epigraph of Melanie Cheng's novel "The Burrow" comes from an unfinished Franz Kafka short story with the same title: "The most beautiful thing about my burrow is the stillness. Of course, that is deceptive.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
largeheartedboy.com | Melanie Cheng
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Melanie Cheng’s novelThe Burrow is the most moving book I have read all year, an exploration of grief both eloquently and elegantly told.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
shelf-awareness.com | Eliza Clark |Melanie Cheng |Richard Price |Izumi Suzuki
Share with friends:Permanent Link:British novelist Eliza Clark's first short story collection, She's Always Hungry, is packed with darkly funny, often speculative pieces, each with a hefty punch. In "Build a Body Like Mine," a young woman becomes obsessed with growing parasites in her gut to maintain her goal weight.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Maren Longbella |Melanie Cheng
The epigraph of Melanie Cheng’s novel “The Burrow” comes from an unfinished Franz Kafka short story with the same title: “The most beautiful thing about my burrow is the stillness. Of course, that is deceptive.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
killyourdarlings.com.au | Melanie Cheng
The Burrow is the story of family secrets—and a rabbit. How did this novel come about? When I became a parent, I expected the responsibility, but I was completely unprepared for the vulnerability. I spent a lot of time imagining the various ways my children could die and even more time trying to prevent those worst-case scenarios.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Michael Williams |Melanie Cheng
Melanie Cheng’s newest novel, The Burrow, stole an evening of my life. I was already a fan of her first two books – short story collection Australia Day and her first novel, Room for a Stranger. She’s a terrific writer and I was excited that she had a new book coming out. And The Burrow looked promising: gorgeous cover, with a large, implacable rabbit on the front, and a blurb that intrigued, describing the Melbourne-based family, Jin, Amy, and Lucie, at the novel’s core.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Melanie Cheng |Tim Winton |Cate Kennedy |Daniel James
Lines from Nabokov reverberate as the author sees in her young daughter an inherited sense of anticipatory loss “A thousand years ago, five minutes were / Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. / Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and / Infinite aftertime: above your head. / They close like giant wings, and you are dead.” – NabokovParenthood caused me to revisit realities about the universe I had come to take for granted.
