Morey turns up the heatQUININE
Kelly Ana Morey
Huia Publishers - $35.00
Award-winning writer Kelly Ana Morey turns up the heat with her latest novel, Quinine, a story set in German East Neuguinea, now known as the Independent State of Papua New Guinea.
The story begins in Vienna in 1903, where thirty-three-year-old Marta Mueller, a natural historian and talented artist, meets Bernard Schmidt, a copra planter, who is looking for a wife. For Marta, who longs to travel the world, Bernard is a window of opportunity and a chance to start anew.
This is Morey’s sixth book, and it draws on her childhood experience of growing up in Papua New Guinea and explores the rich and humid landscape of the rugged tropical island.
Kelly Ana Morey is of Ngāti Kurī and Pākehā descent. Her previous novels include Bloom (Hubert Church Award: Best First Work of Fiction 2004) and Grace is Gone (Finalist Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize 2004). She was also the inaugural recipient of the Janet Frame Literary Award for Fiction in 2005.
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