Rising to the surface

by Latika Vasil

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"A businessman meets a tattoo artist on a plane and finds his world beginning to unravel. A desperate real estate agent has one last chance to make a sale. A rock star lookalike postie steals a postcard and has a change of luck. An eccentric boy with an interest in Winston Churchill's parrot receives a diagnosis - but will his mother accept it? A lonely woman befriends the boy next door, who shares his love of pyrotechnic experiments and letters from Africa from his missionary mother. The show more wife of a notorious murderer drives to prison to collect him on his release, and wonders if she really knows who he is. These are some of the characters that form the cast of this dazzling debut collection of stories by Latika Vasil. Her portraits of disengaged and often idiosyncratic individuals, out of step with their worlds, are sketched with insight, compassion and humour"--Back cover. show less

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timjones 280 reviews

A fine debut collection of short stories by Wellington (NZ) author Latika Vasil - a collection whose power is cumulative, and derives from the author's understated, observational style. You can read my interview with Latika Vasil here:

http://timjonesbooks.blogspot.co.nz/2013/07/an-interview-with-latika-vasil.html

Dec 24, 2013

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