When I Open the Shop

  • ISBN #9781776921300
  • Romesh Dissanayake
  • Paperback
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When I Open the Shop

  • ISBN #9781776921300
  • Romesh Dissanayake
  • Paperback
  • Ships in 3-10 days
  • Ships in 3-10 days

$30.43 ex GST

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.
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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 / softback
    • Publication Date: 14/03/2024
    • Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
    • Country of Origin: New Zealand
    • Pages: 224
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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 / softback
    • Publication Date: 14/03/2024
    • Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
    • Country of Origin: New Zealand
    • Pages: 224
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