The Burning River

Year for Search
2019
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The novel is set in a future Aotearoa/New Zealand that has experienced a devastating environmental collapse and follows the experiences of one Pākehā man who travels across the country with a few Māori in search of connections among people and the possibility of rebuilding the country. In the future, and in the text, people are bilingual in English and Māori and use the languages as if they were one.

Pagination
335 pp.
Published Date

2019

Publisher
Victoria University Press
Place Published
Wellington, New Zealand
ISSN Number
9781776562237
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2019 Patchett, Lawrence. The Burning River. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press. Parts were originally published as “The Road to Tokomairiro.” Sport: New Zealand Literary Magazine, no. 39 (2011); and “Intruder.” Illus. Overland, no. 219 (Winter 2015): 42-45. https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-219/fiction-lawrence-patc… PSt

The novel is set in a future Aotearoa/New Zealand that has experienced a devastating environmental collapse and follows the experiences of one Pākehā man who travels across the country with a few Māori in search of connections among people and the possibility of rebuilding the country. In the future, and in the text, people are bilingual in English and Māori and use the languages as if they were one. Aotearoa/New Zealand Pākehā author.

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Parts were originally published as “The Road to Tokomairiro.” Sport: New Zealand Literary Magazine, no. 39 (2011); and “Intruder.” Illus. Overland, no. 219 (Winter 2015): 42-45 https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-219/fiction-lawrence-patc…

Author Note

Aotearoa/New Zealand Pākehā author.

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