Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989, Janet Frame has long been admired for her startlingly original prose and formidable imagination. A native of New Zealand, she is the author of eleven novels, four collections of stories, a volume of poetry, a children's book, and he...
The lizard ideal of sun and warmth, the human ideal of unlimited leisure, of unbroken views of ocean, sky, mountains, trees, make Menton a promised paradise for all when reaching their troisième âge they try to follow the tradition of stopping suddenly their pursuits of twenty, thirty, forty year...
I remember it was this way: School starts and goes on and on. I think I am learning to read. I have a book with big black print and a soft green cover with pale green threads running through it. The first story is of Little Red Riding Hood who set out one day to take some sweetmeats (what are swe...
Of all people I, one of his closest friends and his workmate for twenty years, should have been able to discover why he died. His wife was shocked and baffled, and his grown-up son and daughter, and the company, Despatch Concrete Limited, and this general bewilderment was reflected in the coroner...