Lobsters do not have eyelashes!
Joanna Biggs: Nell Freudenberger, 8 February 2007
The Dissident
by Nell Freudenberger.
Picador, 427 pp., £14.99, March 2007,978 0 330 49343 7 Show More
by Nell Freudenberger.
Picador, 427 pp., £14.99, March 2007,
“... In Nell Freudenberger’s first novel, Yuan Zhao, a Chinese artist, is invited to Los Angeles as a visiting scholar at St Anselm’s School for Girls. He is famous for the experimental performance art and painting he made as a member of the artists’ community in Beijing’s East Village during the early 1990s, and what is more alluring, for being arrested for his art, but he hasn’t ‘done anything more than pencil sketches for the past five years ... ”