Quinine

Quinine
Kelly Ana Morey
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Paperback
h220 x 140mm - 200pg
3 Sep 2010 NZ
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9781869694319
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Vienna, 1903: Thirty-three-year-old Marta Mueller, natural historian and talented artist, meets Bernard Schmidt, a copra planter from German East Neuguinea (now Papua New Guinea) who is looking for a wife. For Marta, who longs to travel the world, Bernard is a window of opportunity and a chance to start anew. A few months later Marta is married and sailing for the Pacific. Her new husband's friends are a strange group: Australians, Samoans, Europeans and natives mix uneasily and unconventionally in the hot, humid, and unstable environment of German-ruled Neuguinea. Marta must find her feet, and herself, far away from her family during her marriage and, later, the British-Australian conquest and formation of Papua New Guinea. Eventually, Marta finds a real, if unconventional love, and achieves greater success in her artistic and scientific work than she might ever have dreamed.
Kelly Ana Morey is an award-winning novelist of Ngati Kuri and Pakeha descent. Born in 1968, she spent her early childhood in Papua New Guinea before attending boarding school in New Zealand. She graduated from Auckland with degrees in art history and creative writing, and wrote her first novel, Bloom, while unemployed in the Far North. She now lives in South Kaipara. Morey's previous novels include Bloom (Hubert Church Award: Best First Work of Fiction 2004) and Grace is Gone (Finalist Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize 2004). She was also the inaugural recipient of the Janet Frame Literary Award for Fiction in 2005.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781869694319
Published: 3 Sep 2010
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Huia Publishers
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 220mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 200
Dewey: 823.3

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