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Synopsis
At the time of the strange happenings in Kowhai Street, Puamahara, people were living their quiet lives, taking pride in the maintenance of 'surburban comfortable' homes, little realising that inexplicable chaos was at hand.
Mattina Brecon crossed the world from wealthy New York to visit Puamahara, attracted by the Maori legend of the Memory Flower which the New Zealand Tourist board was so proud to have discovered. Slowly her world and that of her neighbours in Kowhai Street begins to shift dimension, logic becomes overturned with devastating consequences in the land where memory had flowered.
As the events of Kowhai Street unfold, the Tararua mountains, their foothills and orchards become as near and far as the distant Carpathians. Janet Frame transports us to a world where unquestioned beliefs inexorably fall into doubt and ordinary lives come to blossom in the Ancient Springtime.
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In The Carpathians, Janet Frame again calls into question the human facility to communicate. Relocated New Yorker Mattina Brecon attempts to get to know her neighbors on Kowhai Street, where she has taken up temporary residence in order to research the Memory Flower for which her new town is famous. One night she awakens to find her neighbors screaming without human language, covered by a midnight rain of glittering specks that are the ashes of language. The townspeople mysteriously disappear, leaving Mattina alone. Her own memories and the frightening novel of a stranger that tells the story of Mattina herself are all that she has to trace the mystery.
About the Author
Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989, Janet Frame has long been admired for her startlingly original prose and formidable imagination. A native of New Zealand, she is the author of eleven novels, four collections of stories, a volume of poetry, a children's book, and her heartfelt and courageous autobiography--all published by George Braziller.
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Condition: Fair. : En la tranquila ciudad de Nueva Zelanda de Kowhai Street, los residentes llevan vidas apacibles hasta que extraños sucesos comienzan a perturbar su cotidianidad. Mattina Brecon, atraída por la leyenda maorí de la Flor de la Memoria, llega desde Nueva York, desencadenando una serie de eventos que desafían la lógica y transforman la realidad de los habitantes. A medida que los sucesos se desarrollan, las montañas de Tararua se entrelazan con los Cárpatos, transportando a los lectores a un mundo donde las creencias se desmoronan y la vida florece en la Antigua Primavera. EAN: 9780044404279 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Carpathians Autor: Janet Frame Editorial: Pandora P. Idioma: en Páginas: 198 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2026-07-08-76601d03
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Pbk.Ed. Set in a quiet New Zealand town, this novel explores what happens when ordinary people's lives are disrupted by mysterious happenings. The author transports the reader to a realm of shifting dimensions where unquestioned beliefs fall into doubt and ordinary lives blossom in the Ancient Springtime. Seller Inventory # 045415
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