Strength
of the Sun
Catherine Chidgey
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Colette begins receiving mysterious letters from The
Friends of Patrick Mercer about a man lying unconscious
in a hospital in England. Meanwhile, Ruth and Malcolm, whose
young son is Colette's charge, try to overcome the
tragic disappearance of their teenage daughter. Medievalist Patrick Mercer desperately tries to reconstruct
his life through dreams, memories, and his beloved
illuminated manuscripts after a car accident.
This book was originally published in New Zealand
with the title Golden
Deeds.
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Talking
About O'Dwyer
C.K. Stead
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Mike Newall, Oxford don, is seeking to build a new
life after his divorce but feels increasingly weighed
down by the past. When colleague and fellow New Zealander
Donovan O'Dwyer dies, Newall reveals to his friend
Winterstoke the secret that O'Dwyer carried to the
grave. Believing that O'Dwyer caused the death of
a Maori soldier during the battle for Crete in World
War II, the soldier's family place a makutu, a Maori
curse, on him.
Newall's and O'Dwyer's lives are curiously interconnected
and Newall finds that he must interweave O'Dwyer's
tale with his own: a childhood in New Zealand, self-imposed
exile in Oxford, marriage, and divorce. And in recounting
these parallel lives, he gradually comes to see a
way of laying the ghosts of O'Dwyer's — and
his own — past to rest.
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The
Miserables
Damien Wilkins
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Brett Healey is 30 years old and looking for clues.
Traveling to and from Wellington, New Zealand, for
his grandfather's funeral, he reflects on his past,
finding patterns as he meets again the people who
have meant most to him. Healey's high-speed, shoddy
overheated mind detects clues to the present in an
evocative return to his childhood and adolescence.
In three days enough evidence is sifted to open up
a new passage in his life. He could only make his
peace by attempting to join together the landscapes
framed in his parents' windows by rushing from room
to room, much as a child runs through a quiet house
early in the morning, upset that he is the only one
awake. Absorbing, beautifully written, and often very
funny. 1994 Winner of the New Zealand Book Award for
Fiction.
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