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Stonefish
Hardback Edition: 1
Stonefish is a collection of short stories and poems by the only New Zealand writer to win the Pegasus Prize for Maori Literature and the Booker Prize. 'The scallops arranged in the spider lambis were succulently decadent. A bottle of rare wine had been reduced
to its essence and sprinkled over the raw bodies, and rough salt, and finely-chopped redware. The flush of the shell echoed visually the wine and the seaweed, and although there were but five scallops, they were truly sweet meat. The slices of mild green pepper were almost transparent, and they tangled artfully with shreds of young daikon, and pressure-steamed fragments of ti. Hot and crisp and oily-melting, a challenging blend. And the tea, as always, was Black Dragon tea, a hint of smoky coolness in the steam, and a consummation in the mouth. People died just to get it to these islands she had learned. She could think of many worse reasons to die...'
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Pages : 225
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Publication date : 2007-10-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Education / Language / ESOL