#ghostcities — Public Fediverse posts
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Siang Lu has won one of Australia's most prestigious book prizes, the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award, for his part-fable, part-rom-com novel Ghost Cities.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-24/miles-franklin-literary-award-siang-lu-ghost-cities/105560790
'Perhaps that's in part because for almost 10 years the book languished, unpublished, in Lu's drawer. It was rejected more than 200 times, both in Australia and overseas.
Then in 2022 — after winning an unpublished manuscript award at the Queensland Literary Awards — he published his debut novel, The Whitewash, an oral history of the fictional first spy thriller with an Asian male lead.
And it was a success: It was shortlisted at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and won best audiobook at the Australian Book Industry Awards.
"It's a very long and sometimes torturous road to publication," Lu says. "Sometimes the book that you think will be the debut book ends up not being that."
The success of The Whitewash led Lu to dust off Ghost Cities.
Accepting the Miles Franklin at an event in Sydney on Thursday, Lu recalled how he would print out every rejection letter and stick it to a glass window between his office and bedroom, where his newborn baby lay sleeping.'
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2/2…#environmentalVandalism, #nuclearEnergy (note we mine #uranium here in Australia), #GhostCities, #overdevelopment, #pollution… and much more.
We lamented these and other abuses and the #extremelyWealthy labelled us #racist or flatly ignored us, rather than reducing #Australia's dependence on China. Now many smooth-talking #westerners have been booted out of China and #HongKong and they want you on their side.
Keep this firmly in your mind.
You are being played by the wealthy yet again.