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Post by NZBC on Jun 30, 2009 20:01:29 GMT 12
Alison Wong's first novel is set in Wellington in the early twentieth century. Haining Street is allegedly full of opium dens, gambling and strange Chinese practices. Katherine is a widow struggling to support her children and Yung is a young Chinese man who runs a vegetable shop ...
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Post by NZBC on Jul 7, 2009 19:13:19 GMT 12
an excellent book - well worth reading.
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Post by NZBC on Aug 28, 2010 9:26:52 GMT 12
Debut novelist Alison Wong -- formerly of Wellington's Titahi Bay but now living in Australia -- won the fiction award for her book As the Earth Turns Silver, described as "deeply moving", pipping established writers Fiona Farrell and Owen Marshall.
Judge Charmain Pountney said Wong "brings a powerful new voice and new themes to New Zealand fiction".
Researched meticulously, "this novel opens new windows on the development of our nation; it also opens our hearts to the anguish caused by racism, ignorance, failures in family relationships and communication, and war."
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