New Zealand Book Awards 2023 winners #theockhams.Grand: Becoming My Mother’s Daughter by Noelle McCarthy.Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia tr.You might not see how everything threads together as you read along, but when you look back from the end of the story, the map becomes clear.”Īnn Patchett, These Precious Days Recent Posts “In life, time runs together in its sameness, but in fiction time is condensed-one action springboards into another, greater action.Ĭause and effect are so much clearer in novels than they are in life. “I truly believe that attention is the most sacred resource that we have to spend on this planet, and books are perhaps the last places where we spend this resource freely, and where it means the most.” The Beauty of the House is immeasurable its Kindness infinite. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous. Lost texts must be found secrets must be uncovered. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims?
Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. At other times he brings tributes of food and waterlilies to the Dead. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides which thunder up staircases, the clouds which move in slow procession through the upper halls. The winner is Piranesi by British author Susanna Clarke. She has created a world beyond our wildest imagination that also tells us something profound about what it is to be human.” With her first novel in seventeen years, Susanna Clarke has given us a truly original, unexpected flight of fancy which melds genres and challenges preconceptions about what books should be. “We wanted to find a book that we’d press into readers’ hands, which would have a lasting impact. Today, as the winner was announced, Chair of Judges Bernardine Evaristo, said: In April it was reduced down to the six below that made the short list. On March 10 the longlist of 16 novels was announced, featuring two Irish authors, six British and five American authors, one Canadian, one Barbadian and one Ghanaian/American.
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