Sing to Me, Dreamer (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
A quirky, much-loved novel about a return home, a past love affair and an elephant.
"It is many years since I turned the pages of the little book I wrote for the holy man, and the ivory covers creak as I open on the story of how I went to India ....
"It is many years since I turned the pages of the little book I wrote for the holy man, and the ivory covers creak as I open on the story of how I went to India ....
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A quirky, much-loved novel about a return home, a past love affair and an elephant.
"It is many years since I turned the pages of the little book I wrote for the holy man, and the ivory covers creak as I open on the story of how I went to India . . . As my voice ascends, thin as the song of a lark, I see again the black eyes of the holy man, irises flecked with gold as he hands me the pen and paper. 'Oh sing to me, dreamer,' he said, and I began to write."
Back home as she sorts out her deceased Mother's estate, Margaret Harris reflects on her time in India as mistress to a Maharajah. But there are many things that she has to confront in the present - her bullying lawyer, the aggressive neighbour, and the spectre of her failed relationship with her mother.
"It is many years since I turned the pages of the little book I wrote for the holy man, and the ivory covers creak as I open on the story of how I went to India . . . As my voice ascends, thin as the song of a lark, I see again the black eyes of the holy man, irises flecked with gold as he hands me the pen and paper. 'Oh sing to me, dreamer,' he said, and I began to write."
Back home as she sorts out her deceased Mother's estate, Margaret Harris reflects on her time in India as mistress to a Maharajah. But there are many things that she has to confront in the present - her bullying lawyer, the aggressive neighbour, and the spectre of her failed relationship with her mother.
Autoren-Porträt von Shonagh Koea
Shonagh Koea has published short stories, novels and memoir. North & South commented that 'Shonagh Koea has a command of prose, an originality of expression, a sophisticated wit and a richness of imagery, which makes her writing a delight.' She won the Air New Zealand Short Story Award (1981), her novel Sing to Me, Dreamer was a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards (1995), and The Lonely Margins of the Sea was runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction (1999). She has held the University of Auckland Fellowship in Literature (1993) and the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship (1997).Koea's territory is 'the contrast between domestic misery and various forms of withdrawal or escape' (The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature), and she has been described 'as addictive as nicotine or coffee - with, perhaps, major withdrawal symptoms' (Nelson Evening Mail).
Poet Alistair Paterson said of Staying Home and Being Rotten, 'This is not merely a good book, but a work of brilliance. It establishes Shonagh Koea as a leading New Zealand novelist and a writer of international significance.'
The Kindness of Strangers: Kitchen Memoirs is a collection of Koea's memories from her various roles as daughter, wife, mother, journalist and novelist, and as such serves as a social history of New Zealand of the past 50 years. Reviewing it in The New Zealand Listener, Graeme Lay called it 'a truly delectable read'. The New Zealand Herald wrote: 'the ingredients in Shonagh Koea's writing - among them a delicate yet incisive wit, keen perception, irony, and an abundance of sensuous imagery - are good enough to stand alone. Still, the 25 plain and tasty very mid-century New Zealand recipes are skilfully interwoven with the episodic memories they give rise to, and slowly build up a fascinating portrait.'
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Shonagh Koea
- 2011, Main, 272 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
- ISBN-10: 1869796195
- ISBN-13: 9781869796198
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2011
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