A Note from Passing Guest: Main Language

This is an excerpt from my book Passing Guest, where I explain my personal relationship between storytelling and language. Beyond my writing, speaking several languages is a big part of my life. I grew up bilingual (Spanish and Catalan) and at different stages of my life I learnt French, English and Chinese, as well as some Korean and Bahasa Indonesia. My relationship with all these languages shaped my experiences and my life away from my home country. In my novel The Mansion South of Maple Street, I wanted to give languages an important value to the story and the are part of the main character’s relationship with the environment in different ways.

Media, English, BooksIris MirNovember 2, 2023language, immigration, identityComment

Prologue: Passing Guest, An Experiment in Love

Passing Guest takes the form of a set of fictional short stories led by an imaginary character, a woman, who embodies eight enigmas of love, kindness and hope. She sets herself on a quest that takes her to Hong Kong, South Korea, North Korea and neighbouring mainland China, The Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Uganda, Senegal, and the cities of London and Barcelona.

As she tries to find her answers, she transports herself to different universes, possibilities of being and seeing, and ultimately of finding love. Soon she discovers that who she is (and who we are) can only be answered by the magic of love, which is as beautifully unique as every single one of us who makes up our diverse humanity.

Stories, English, BooksIris MirMay 5, 2021Passing Guest, writing, love, identity, freedomComment

PRESS RELEASE: Searching New Horizons of Meaning Through Love and our Environment

In this collection of fictional stories, Passing Guest, Iris Mir imagines what the futures of random bystanders on the streets would look like if they had the chance to experience love in a new way; one of compassion and kindness toward others.

With this in mind, Mir writes their dreamed stories honouring their lives, their voices and the reason their hypothetical love-experience would matter to our social fabric. Their imaginary stories become a reminder of the importance of many small human acts of kindness that are integral to our survival and are being eroded as a result of our increasingly fragmented and polarised societies.

Media, English, BooksIris MirMay 5, 2021Writing, hope, freedom, identity, loveComment

Prologue: To Flow

This is the English translation of the prologue of my first novel The Mansion at the South of Maple Street, published in Spanish in 2020

EnglishIris MirDecember 17, 2020Hong Kong, freedom, happiness, coming of age, diversity, identity Comments

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