Nelson Arts Festival - Alison Wong
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When:
| Sat 16 Oct ’10, 2:00pm |
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Where: The Granary, Founders Historic Park, 87 Atawhai Drive, Nelson Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
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Page and Blackmore Readers and Writers. Alison Wong - - As the Earth Turns Silver.
This first novel follows the stories of two very different people struggling with daily life in early twentieth-century Wellington. Chung Yung is working in his older brother’s greengrocery to support his family back in China. Katherine McKechnie is struggling to raise two children after the death of her brutish husband. Against the backdrop of World War I, the story of their forbidden love is both tragic and uplifting.
Alison Wong grew up in Hawkes Bay, has lived in China and Wellington and now lives in Geelong.
She has won awards for poetry and fiction and wide acclaim for this, her first novel.
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