Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
29.10.2025
Verlag
Parallax CollectiveSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
44 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798232956660
What if death wasn't sacred - but strangely, beautifully, absurdly ordinary? Meet the unnamed crew of George Town's crematorium - a collective of 70-year-old Polynesian-French operators who speak in French-Malaysian Creole, handle ashes with surgical precision, and laugh through the smoke. In Ashes in George Town, they recount ten unforgettable funerals - from the Malay bride in the pink coffin to the French tourist who mistook them for a spa - each revealing how culture, commerce, and comedy collide at the edge of eternity.-
- Witness the Chinese businessman who demanded his ashes be stored in a Yixing teapot - and the crew who bought it themselves.
- Feel the quiet dignity of the Indian widow who sang hymns until the flames caught.
- Laugh at the Polynesian sailor who requested a coconut shell urn - and the crew who delivered it, despite the logistics.
- Be moved by the teenager whose ashes were scattered at his favorite surf beach - and the crew who drove there in silence.
Written with unsentimental clarity and wry existential humor, this hybrid memoir-essay collection turns the crematory into a stage for humanity's final act - where grief, ritual, and absurdity dance in the heat of the retort.
"A darkly comic, deeply human meditation on what remains - and what doesn't - when the body is gone."
Perfect for readers who crave literary nonfiction with bite, cultural insight, and a touch of gallows humor. If you've ever wondered what happens after the last prayer, this is the book that dares to answer - with bone-dry wit and heart.
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