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Decline & Fall On Savage Street
Paperback Edition: 1
A fascinating novel of a house. It is an ordinary villa built in 1910, except its site is far from ordinary. The land jumps and shifts then settles again. In 1908, plans are drawn up for a villa to be erected by the river that
winds through this wide, flat country. Within two years, the architect's sketches are turning into a finished house, and within another two years children are running through its rooms. This is the story of a house evolving through a century of historical events and social change, around the people that call it home. A house that has been built within a tight-knit community on shaky ground. This fictional work is a companion volume to The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, a nonfiction book that was shortlisted for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
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Featured in the 14 August 2017 New Zealand / Pasifika Newsletter.
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