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ISBN10: 1776921305
ISBN13: 9781776921300
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Published: Apr 8 2024
Pages: 224
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781776921300
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Published: Apr 8 2024
Pages: 224
Language: English
In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothing is going according to plan: the bills are piling up, his mother is dead, and there are strangers in his kitchen. The ancestors are watching closely. Told through a series of brilliant interludes and jump cuts, When I open the shop is sometimes blackly funny, sometimes angry and sometimes lyrical, and sometimes - as a car soars off the road on a horror road trip to the Wairarapa - it takes flight into surrealism. A glimpse into immigrant life in Aotearoa, this is a highly entertaining, surprising and poignant debut novel about grief, struggle and community.
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