When I open the shop
eBook - ePub

When I open the shop

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

When I open the shop

About this book

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, and sometimes – as a car soars off the road on a horror road trip to the Wairarapa – it takes flight into surrealism. A glimpse into immigrant life in Aotearoa, this is a highly entertaining, surprising and poignant debut novel about grief, struggle and community.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover page
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Dedication1
  6. PART I
  7. The rally
  8. Japanese whisky
  9. Ghosts
  10. The Big K
  11. Aisha
  12. PART II
  13. Jai guru deva
  14. Departure
  15. Solstice
  16. False dawn
  17. The slap
  18. Reckoning
  19. THE ISLAND
  20. PART III
  21. Lentils
  22. Akash
  23. Riya
  24. Anxestors in the glass
  25. Flour and cheese
  26. The last batch
  27. Lights