When I open the shop
Dissanayake, Romesh2023
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''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''--Cover verso.
Main title:
When I open the shop / by Romesh Dissanayake.
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Imprint:
Wellington, New Zealand : Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2023.©2023.
Collation:
190 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9781776921300 (paperback)
Language:
English
BRN:
505948
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