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When I open the shop
Dissanayake, Romesh,
| Published | 2023 · Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| ISBN | 9781776921300 |
| Physical | 190 pages ; illustration; 21 cm. |
Cooks -- New Zealand -- Wellington -- Fiction.
Young men -- Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Grief -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- New Zealand -- Fiction.
Wellington (N.Z.) -- Fiction.
"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. A glimpse into immigrant life in Aotearoa, this is a highly entertaining, surprising and poignant debut novel about grief, struggle and community."--Publisher.
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