The Burning River

Author(s): Lawrence Patchett

Novel | Dystopia, Science Fiction and Fantasy | Aotearoa Fiction

In a radically changed Aotearoa New Zealand, Van's life in the swamp is hazardous. Sheltered by Rau and Matewai, he mines plastic and trades to survive. When a young visitor summons him to the fenced settlement on the hill, he is offered a new and frightening responsibilitya perilous inland journey that leads to a tense confrontation and the prospect of a rebuilt world.

`Patchett's is an extraordinary imaginative achievement: an unsettlingly strange, and fully realised, narrative situation and world. I read The Burning River experiencing a mixture of intellectual exhilaration and emotional agitation of an intensity fiction has not produced in me for some time.' -Dougal McNeill

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General Fields

  • : 9781776562237
  • : 82249
  • : Victoria University Press
  • : October 2019
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  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Lawrence Patchett
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 823.3
  • : 336