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Lost in Translation : New Zealand Stories
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Author:
Marco Sonzogni (ed.)
Differing interpretations can define and bind us, as New Zealanders have discovered with the Treaty of Waitangi. The starting-off point for this collection of short stories is a piece of text or image that is read differently by different people: be it because of ambiguity, or misapprehension, a problem of translation, or opposing perspectives or cultures.
This book is not meant to explore the issues of the Treaty of Waitangi in any literal or direct way, but rather explore the human paradox that has followed from its writing 170 years ago: in trying to bring people together, words can also push them apart.
Lying at the core of our interactions, words are both salves and weapons, they can be simple and fork-tongued. How we read, how we misinterpret each other, can reveal the nature of our society, its diversity, complexity and richness. Written by a mix of leading New Zealand writers, with Maori, British, Irish, Polynesian, ...
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Anna Kavan's New Zealand : A pacific interlude in a turbulent life
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Anna Kavan (ed. Jennifer Sturm)
New Zealanders live 'in temporary shacks, uneasily, as reluctant campers too far from home', wrote Anna Kavan in a London magazine in 1943.
Her seemingly negative comments created a stir both in the UK and New Zealand and suggested Kavan felt nothing but antipathy for the country.
However, in researching this prize-winning author of nineteen books, Dr Jennifer Sturm uncovered letters and unpublished short stories written during Kavan's sojourn in New Zealand that show a more complex, affectionate and significant response. Those stories are published here for the first time, along with a fascinating discussion of this experimental writer and talented artist, who struggled with bouts of depression and insecurity, as well as heroin addiction and a stream of unconventional love affairs.
Kavan roamed the world trying to find a home, and although her stay in New Zealand was for less than two years, her stories reveal a ...
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Essential New Zealand Short Stories
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Owen Marshall (ed)
The short story has been the forte of distinguished New Zealand writers from Katherine Mansfield and Frank
Sargeson through to fresh young talents such as Eleanor Catton and Craig Cliff. There could be no better
guide to a sampler of their best work than Owen Marshall, who has been called New Zealand's best living
writer of short stories.
Marshall's indispensible collection features fifty arresting and significant stories that show why short fiction
has been so important in the development of our literature, and also why it continues to appeal. First
published in 2002, this new edition of the collection features five new stories from writers who excel at a
magnificent national genre: perfectly polished stories peopled by perceptive, quirky and intriguing characters.
First published 2002.
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Forbidden Cities : A short story collection
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author:
Paula Morris
This story collection by Paula Morris roams the globe and ranges widely in subject matter. From Sunset Boulevard to the beaches of Auckland, from the Bund in Shanghai to the banks of the Danube, from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Hammersmith Flyover, from post-Katrina New Orleans to Fire Island . . . the stories of
Forbidden Cities
explore places of escape, transgression, ambition, delusions, and desire.
First published October 2008.
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Hill Sides
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Author:
David Hill
A collection of David Hill's adult short stories and articles with an introduction by Elizabeth Smither.
There's something for everyone, from the poignant to the laugh-out-loud.
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Huia Short Stories 8 : Contemporary Maori stories
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Huia Press editors
Here are the best short stories as and novel extracts from the Pikihuia Awards for Maori Writers 2009, as judged by David Geary, Julian Wilcox and Briar Grace-Smith. For over ten years the Maori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers have been organising this unique and increasingly popular biennial writing competition, producing award-winning Maori writers. The awards and their subsequent publications have become well-known and much-anticipated as they bring more undiscovered gems to the attention of the New Zealand reading public. Past winners and finalists include James George, Briar Grace-Smith, Isabel Waiti-Mulholland, Kelly AnaMorey and Paula Morris.
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Living as a Moon
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Author:
Owen Marshall
Being a celebrity impersonator, says the Aussie Elton John, is like living your life as a moon. 'We give up our
identity and become just a reflection of another personality, like the moon having no fire of its own and being just a pale reflection of the sun when it's not there.' This new collection of stories from master short fiction writer Owen Marshall is rich in people exploring their identities and how they are affected by others. There is Patrick, whose life is radically alerted by a random encounter with a killer; widowed Margaret, who faces a new kind of existence alone; David, who experiences the 'spontaneous and passing friendship of strangers';Ian, whose wife's demands for a better lifestyle lead him to a new career in telephone sex. Set in both Europe and the Antipodes, these twenty-five stories are at once arresting, moving, funny and full of insight into the human condition.
First published August 2009.
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Prizes : Selected Short Stories
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NZ$ 37.00 each
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Author:
Janet Frame
The most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, taken from the four different collections released during her life time and featuring the best stories she wrote. The stories included here were written over four decades, from her first collection THE LAGOON AND OTHER STORIES first published in 1951, right up to stories from YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE HUMAN HEART published in the 1980s. This new selection also includes five short stories that have not been collected before. This is the perfect sampling of this brilliant writer's unique and powerful writing.
This collection first published February 2009, Auckland
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Scarlet Heels : 26 Stories About Sex
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Author:
Rachel McAlpine
These stories happened decades ago or yesterday, in a pulpit, garden, airport, cupboard, train or bed. Twenty-six women, young and old, talk about moments when sex (or abstaining from sex) changed their lives in some way. Today, they all live in New Zealand's most prim and proper city ...but their sexual epiphanies occurred all around the world.
First published January 2010.
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Some Other Country : New Zealand's Best Short Stories (4th edition, September 2008))
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NZ$ 37.00 each
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Author:
Bill Manhire & Marion McLeod (eds)
First published in 1984,
Some Other Country
quickly became established as New Zealand’s essential single-volume anthology of short stories, and has since been enjoyed by many thousands of visitors, students and readers of all kinds.
Now this fourth edition adds four new writers, bringing the collection completely up to date with the diverse energies of New Zealand life and writing.
It includes well-known stories by major writers including Vincent O’Sullivan, Joy Cowley, C. K. Stead, Owen Marshall and Keri Hulme, alongside stories by writers who have come into prominence in the last 20 years, such as Barbara Anderson, Fiona Farrell, Emily Perkins, Damien Wilkins and Alice Tawhai.
Some Other Country
represents the editors' choice of simply 'the best we could find'.
First published 1984; this 4th edition September 2008.
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