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A sublime and provocative debut from one of the UK´s most exciting new writers, for fans of Miranda July, Carmen Maria Machado and Lydia Davis.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD

A motorcycle courier finds a cache of nude photos in her boyfriend´s desk. The daughter of East German emigrants encounters her doppelgänger, who has crossed another cultural divide. Twin brothers fall for the same girl. When a stripper receives an enigmatic proposal from a client, she accepts, ignorant of its terms.

Shadows, doubles, and the ghosts of past and future lovers haunt these elegantly structured and often hallucinatory stories. The language is hypnotic, deadpan, intense; the sentences jewel-hard and sublime. Things to Make and Break is the work of a stylish, exuberant new voice in modern fiction.

´Quite dazzling´ TLS

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A visceral collection ... There´s an irresistible tautness to Tan´s writing style, and she looks at her characters with such clear-eyed sensitivity that, as a reader, you can barely tear your eyes away. AnOther magazine

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