When I Open the Shop by Dissanayake, Romesh

When I Open the Shop (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781776921300)

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When I Open the Shop by Dissanayake, Romesh

When I Open the Shop

$15.99
When I Open the Shop by Dissanayake, Romesh

When I Open the Shop

$15.99
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Romesh Dissanayake
ISBN-10: 1776921305
ISBN-13: 9781776921300
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2024
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
By Romesh Dissanayake
By Romesh Dissanayake
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romesh dissanayake (Sri Lankan, Koryo Saram) is a writer from Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. His work has appeared in The Spinoff, Newsroom, Pantograph Punch, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space and A Clear Dawn: An Anthology of Emerging Asian New Zealand Writers. His first novel, When I open the shop, was the winner of the 2022 Modern Letters Fiction Prize from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka-- Victoria University of Wellington.

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