The diver's clothes lie empty / Vendela Vida.
Momo rauemi: TextWhakaahuatanga: 216 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781782397700
- 1782397701
- 813/.6 23
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Fiction | Stratford Fiction | Fiction | VID (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | A00757718 |
Tirotiro ana Stratford Ngā whatanga, Shelving location: Fiction, Collection: Fiction Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
VER After the lights go out / | VES This wild, wild country / | VIC Grandmothers / | VID The diver's clothes lie empty / | VIG Based on a true story / | VIG The orchardist's daughter / | VIG Sidelines / |
In Vendela Vida's taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business. While checking into her hotel, the woman is robbed of her wallet and passport-all of her money and identification. Though the police investigate, the woman senses an undercurrent of complicity between the hotel staff and the authorities-she knows she'll never recover her possessions. Stripped of her identity, she feels burdened by the crime yet strangely liberated by her sudden freedom to be anyone she chooses. A chance encounter with a movie producer leads to a job posing as a stand-in for a well-known film star. The star reels her in deeper, though, and soon she's inhabiting the actress's skin off set, too-going deeper into the Casablancan night and further from herself. And so continues a strange and breathtaking journey full of unexpected turns, an adventure in which the woman finds herself moving further and further away from the person she once was.
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