{"product_id":"when-i-open-the-shop-romesh-dissanayake-9781776921300","title":"When I Open the Shop","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Romesh Dissanayake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1776921305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781776921300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Te Herenga Waka University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Romesh Dissanayake","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46739148996863,"sku":"9781776921300","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7584e33f-08ab-4589-940e-6dae67c4060b.jpg?v=1743277361","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-i-open-the-shop-romesh-dissanayake-9781776921300","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}