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When I Open the Shop

Romesh Dissanayake
3.98/5 (261 ratings)
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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.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
224 pages
Publication:
2024
Publisher:
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1776921305
ISBN13:
9781776921300
kindle Asin:
B0D2J5LSCG

When I Open the Shop

Romesh Dissanayake
3.98/5 (261 ratings)
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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.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
224 pages
Publication:
2024
Publisher:
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1776921305
ISBN13:
9781776921300
kindle Asin:
B0D2J5LSCG

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