Black Ice Matter
COLE Gina
- Paperback
- Edition: 1
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This collection of short stories explores connections between extremes of heat and cold. Sometimes this is spatial or geographical; sometimes it is metaphorical. Sometimes it involves juxtapositions of time; sometimes heat appears where only ice is expected. In the stories, a woman is caught between traditional Fijian ways and the brutality of the military dictatorship; a glaciology researcher falls into a crevasse and confronts the unexpected; two women lose children in freak shooting accidents; a young child in a Barbie Doll sweatshop dreams of a different life; secondary school girls struggle with secrets about an addicted janitor; and two women take a deathly trip through a glacier melt ...
Publication date: 2016-08-26
Number of pages: 189
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Subjects:
Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, NZ Fiction, NZ Short Stories
Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)