Asylum

Author: John Hughes

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  • : $24.99 AUD
  • : 9781742588261
  • : UWA Publishing
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  • : February 2016
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : Australia
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  • : Paperback
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  • : black & white illustrations
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Barcode 9781742588261
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Description

'Just because you can't see the chains doesn't mean they don't exist.' In the Sanctuary, two robed men cut the hair of clients who have been called to pass through the White or Black Door. Along with their hair, the clients shed stories: of the horrors of their past, the Place they've inhabited since their escape, and what lies beyond the Doors. These stories are inscribed as Legends, but do they record a vision of Paradise or Hell? This allegory, echoing Kafka, illuminates the stark terror of the modern age, marked by a border in constant shift between gods and men, truth and deception, freedom and constraint, memory and forgetting, revealing a world whose essence is its hiddenness - a world that hides, not in darkness, but in the light.