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Review: The Whitewash - Siang Lu (UQP)
Siang Lu’s debut novel
The Whitewash is a scathing satire of the big-budget
film industry’s ethnic and racial myopia. Original, critical and hilarious, the
book is a product of the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer,
which this manuscript won in 2021.
Lu innovatively blends features of oral history and mockumentary into a
fast-paced multi-vocal exposé. The story recounts the sad fate of a Hollywood
spy thriller, “Brood Empire”, which crashes during production. Adapted from a
popular novel written by an influential Hong Kong writer, Brood Empire is
expected to be a box-office success. It has a top production team, coupled with
a sizeable budget. And for the first time in history, a Hong Kong actor takes
the lead in a Hollywood movie. How can it fail?
Whitewash takes the form of an oral history: the novel is compiled of
interviews with people involved with “Brood Empire”. The editor-in-chief of a
scurrilous rag, “Click Bae”, drives the story. His aim is to get the dirt on
the production, expose its failure – and publish a lucrative book … which will
be entitled “The Whitewash”. Fiction and reality wittily converge."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
