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- Book Synopsis
- <p><strong>Pulmulla is worried her vision of the future will come true.</strong></p><p><strong>Biligiri just wants to get home. Besides, he's in love for the first time, and will be a father in 22 months.</strong></p><p><strong>Tant-Meisie is lonely and going around in circles. She meets famous and eccentric people though.</strong></p><p><strong>Hannibal Solo thought he was retired - until Carroll came along, and she's hard case.</strong></p><p><strong>On top of this, he has voices in his head.</strong></p><p><em>"Absorbing and lyrical, and poignant in the elephants' message. Like Heathcote Williams' Sacred Elephant before it, Taken deserves a wide readership."</em></p><p>-Gareth Patterson, author of The Secret Elephants and Beyond the Secret Elephants.</p><p><em>"A writer of striking originality with qualities of daring and humour that are rare. Like Lloyd Jones, Alex has the ability to create a landscape so vivid the reader feels he is walking down a dusty road or in the hold of a ship."</em></p><p>-Elizabeth Smither, novelist and Poet Laureate of New Zealand</p><p><em>"There is energy and confidence on every page. The way you inhabit your lines is remarkable."</em></p><p>-Lloyd Jones author of Mr Pip and Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Award.</p><p><em>"I was greatly impressed by Taken - an accomplished and poignant story. Here was a writer of considerable potential should he decide to write longer fiction..."</em></p><p>- Tessa Duder CNZM OBE, author of the Alex quartet, winner of Storyline Margaret Mahy Medal.</p><p><br></p><p><em>"I've read and re-read your story, and I think this: It is intriguing, beautifully-crafted, moving and poetic... It brings the knowing eye of elephants to bear on the reader, creating the feeling of injustice I always have when I'm close to them. It's a parable of imperialism. For all these reasons and more, I loved it."</em></p><p>-Bruce Ansley, author of A long Slow Affair of the Heart, A Fabled Land, and Coast: A New Zealand Journey, winner Best Illustrated Non-fiction Book at the New Zealand Post Book Awards</p><p><em>"Beautiful, eye opening, exquisitely absorbing, gentle and powerful."</em></p><p>-Danielle Mathieson, New Zealand artist</p><p> </p>
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781800165700
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vanguard Press, (27 April 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 618
- Weight
- 1008 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 35 mm
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