Chinese Opera
Author(s): Ian Wedde
Chinese Opera is a dark and dazzling novel set in an all too plausible New Zealand of the near future.
'Little Frank is 120 years old and he's lost his mind or the part that can put damaged memories back together. Once the gang boss of The Place hes traded his imagination for secure long life. Trapped in a luxurious present of mindless routine, he's jolted awake in 2090 to the bizarre facts of his world: his obsession with the female lead at the Chinese Opera, his unsavoury liaison with the Binh Xuyen body-part pirates, their surveillance of his movements. Above all, his lost memory of the moment in a pine-scented limo when he traded his imagination for long life. First published September 2008, Wellington
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Ian Wedde was born in 1946. He is the author of five novels, a dozen collections of poetry and two collections of essays, as well as edited anthologies and art catalogues. His work has been praised for the vigour of its language and the wide scope of its ideas. Chinese Opera is Wedde's fifth novel; the book's central character, the gangster Little Frank, is his most complex and disturbing creation.
General Fields
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- : 82249
- : Victoria University Press
- : 01 August 2008
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Ian Wedde
- : Paperback
- : 1st Edition
- : 823.2
- : 254
