Product Description
The Director and the Daemon follows the director of a big budget Australian sci-fi TV show grappling with the dilemma of corporate sponsorship, and their infatuation with their beautiful but selfish lead star, Kit; and an unnamed young radical struggling to find themselves as their political movement—and the found family derived from it—implodes around them. The two characters’ worlds become increasingly interconnected as they’re forced to make big decisions, and take action, in the face of civil unrest. The Director and the Daemon is a character-driven novel of ideas that is beautiful, funny, provocative, and deeply felt.
“The Director and the Daemon is a soaring, spectacular dance of words and emotions. It’s nothing like I’ve ever read before. Chin conveys the precarity of our times with a humility and wonder that left me in awe. I devoured it.’ – JESSIE TU
REVIEWS
“Pitaya Chin’s The Director and the Daemon is a rare bird in Australian fiction – a novel of ideas – and anyone involved in the arts “industry” will find it stimulating, provocative, and darkly funny.” – CAMERON WOODHEAD, The Sydney Morning Herald (paywalled)
“The Director and the Daemon is about desire and loneliness, but mainly desire…[Chin] does the crucial work of imagining fighting back, fighting proactively, and it is this imagination that is denied to us in bad apocalypse-only views of the world we are in, and the world yet to come…The right book for a time when the world is both unbearably grotesque and slapstick.” – ALEX GERRANS, Meanjin Quarterly
