Chinese Opera

Chinese Opera
Ian Wedde
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Paperback
h210 x 140mm - 254pg
1 Aug 2008 NZ
Locally sourced in NZ eta 5-15 days
9780864735850
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'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', he's 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. To rebuild this memory, Little Frank has to abandon longevity. Will he recover the truth before he Times Out? Will he have time to understand his obsession with the singer Madame Hee? What happened to the young mother who abandoned him? Will he have time to revenge himself on the ghoulish Dr Smiles, and the wet-liver-lipped Binh Xuyen boss, Tamar? Will Little Frank finish his Chinese Opera? 'Hungry Ghost time now, Frank.' Chinese Opera is a dark and dazzling novel set in an all too plausible New Zealand of the near future.
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.
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ISBN-13: 9780864735850
Published: 1 Aug 2008
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Victoria University Press
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 254
Dewey: 823.2

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