Gay Lynch reviews Bapo by Nicholas Jose
Bapo
by Nicholas Jose
ISBN 978-1-922146-63-2
Reviewed by GAY LYNCH
Nicholas Jose explains his take on the term ‘Bapo’ in the introduction of his collection of short stories of that title: an unusual kind of Chinese painting that tricks the eye into thinking it sees a collage of fragments. The word literally means ‘eight broken’, where eight is a Chinese lucky number and broken (damaged, worn) suggests that luck has run out, and if it has, that there’s another kind of luck in simply surviving… (1)
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