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
Product Information
General Fields
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- : 82249
- : Victoria University Press
- : 01 October 2019
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- : books
Special Fields
- : Lawrence Patchett
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.3
- : 336