Fiona Farrell

Villa At the Edge of the Empire, The (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Fiona Farrell's new book is a marvellous and wise account of life in Christchurch after the earthquakes. . . Some of us have been waiting for a book like this about the earthquakes and the years after; a book this literate, considered and insightful. . . . Farrell's book gets some of this communal experience and conveys the right sense of outrage. Yet it can also be funny. Her opening pages, in which she reviews the bombastic media launch of the blueprint in 2012, must be some of the sharpest writing about the rebuild so far . . . It is true to say that this is also a political book. Fair enough, too, as the recovery is a political story. . . . The book is packed with thinking but the wisdom is, as reviewer Paul Little said, "laid lightly upon the page". Everyone is sure to learn something. Roman philosophers are consulted. The lovely word "solastalgia" is cited. . . .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781775537526
• Artikelnr.: 43816974

Autorenporträt

Fiona Farrell is one of New Zealand's leading writers. Born in Oamaru and educated at the universities of Otago and Toronto, she has published volumes of poetry, collections of short stories, non-fiction works, and many novels. Her first novel, The Skinny Louie Book, won the 1993 New Zealand Book Award for fiction. Other novels, poetry and non-fiction books have been shortlisted for the Montana and New Zealand Post Book Awards with four novels also nominated for the International Dublin IMPAC Award. In 2007 she received the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction, and in 2012 was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature. The Broken Book, a book of essays relating to the Christchurch earthquakes, was shortlisted for the non-fiction award in the 2012 Book Awards and critically greeted as the 'first major artwork' to emerge from the event. The Villa at the Edge of the Empire was also shortlisted for this award in 2016. Her work, which The New Zealand Herald has praised for its 'richness - of both theme and language', has been published around the world, including in the US, France and the UK. Beryl Fletcher praised Farrell for having '. . . the rare ability of turning the mundane events of domestic life into profound human experiences. Her writing is poetic, moving and literary.'