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The House at Karamu
Fletcher B
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Description for The House at Karamu
Paperback. Num Pages: 438 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 34. Weight in Grams: 428.
What does a place mean? An old kauri villa with a one-roomed school attached is the place that has sustained a writer, Beryl Fletcher, through turbulent years and an obsessive love. Sent away at the age of six for a few months to the house at Karamu, she discovered books and spent many nights reading by candlelight, listening to the call of the moreporks. Karamu became a symbolic landscape of safety that helped her to survive.
What does a place mean? An old kauri villa with a one-roomed school attached is the place that has sustained a writer, Beryl Fletcher, through turbulent years and an obsessive love. Sent away at the age of six for a few months to the house at Karamu, she discovered books and spent many nights reading by candlelight, listening to the call of the moreporks. Karamu became a symbolic landscape of safety that helped her to survive.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
438
Condition
New
Number of Pages
437
Place of Publication
, Australia
ISBN
9781876756352
SKU
V9781876756352
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Ref
99-2
About Fletcher B
Beryl's work has been acclaimed locally and internationally. She won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book for 'The Word Burners'; and her three other novels have been on the Top Twenty titles list for the Listener Book Festival in New Zealand. Beryl has been awarded numerous grants and frequently travels to Europe to speak about her work, two ... Read more
Reviews for The House at Karamu
"This Kiwi writer reflects on her past 40 years, incorporating her childhood through to her marriage and motherhood. You'll be tempted to plough through this in one sitting, but if you try and rush through it you won't do Beryl's poetic style any justice."
Rachelle Macintosh, "New Idea"
Rachelle Macintosh, "New Idea"