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Fox spirit on a distant cloud /

"Wellington, 1923, and a sixty-year-old woman hangs herself in a scullery; ten years later another woman 'falls' from the second floor of a Taranaki tobacconist; soon afterwards a young mother in Taumarunui slices the throat of her newborn with a cleaver. All are women of the Chinese...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murray, Lee, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand : The Cuba Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Chinese > New Zealand > Fiction.
Women > New Zealand > Fiction.
Women immigrants > Fiction.
Chinese > Migrations > Fiction.
New Zealand > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Chinois > Nouvelle-Zélande > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Femmes > Nouvelle-Zélande > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Immigrantes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
New Zealand fiction > 21st century.
Historical fiction.
Horror fiction.
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Summary:"Wellington, 1923, and a sixty-year-old woman hangs herself in a scullery; ten years later another woman 'falls' from the second floor of a Taranaki tobacconist; soon afterwards a young mother in Taumarunui slices the throat of her newborn with a cleaver. All are women of the Chinese diaspora, who came to Aotearoa for a new life and suffered isolation and prejudice in silence"--Back cover.
Item Description:Novel.
Physical Description:136 pages ; 20 cm
Awards:NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize, 2023
ISBN:9781988595771
1988595770