The
Global Financial Crisis (GFC) is often a story of New York traders and
sub-prime mortgages.
But in
the years that followed the GFC, many identical smaller stories played out
around the world. These stories were of small time players by international
standards, but whose collapses left large dents in local economies. New Zealand
for example, was hit hard by a large number of finance companies falling into
receivership and liquidation, leaving investors billions of dollars out of
pocket.
Wellington
author Brannavan Gnanalingam charts the fortunes of a fictitious finance
company－Manchester Gold－a fictitious
Cantabrian town－Manchester－in his third novel, Credit in the Straight World. To
be released on Friday 1 May 2015, the novel follows Frank Tolland as he casts
off an ignoble birth to become the singular leader of business and community in
small-town New Zealand.
Told
through the eyes of his mute brother, George, Credit in the Straight
World is a sharp and satirical account of a small-town finance company,
and sweeps through the dramatic economic changes of the 20th and the 21st
centuries.
Credit in
the Straight World is the third book from Brannavan
Gnanalingam to be released through Lawrence & Gibson publishing. His
first, Getting Under Sail, was described by the NZ Listener
as a ‘unique and beguiling effort’. In 2013, You Should Have Come Here
When You Were Not Here was published to critical acclaim. It was
praised by the NZ Listener as “terse and strong” and
“genre-defying," and by Booksellers NZ as “raw and economical,
painting beautifully truthful pictures.”
Credit in the Straight World will be
launched at the 17 Tory St open source community gallery in Wellington from
530pm on Friday 1 May. At 6pm there will be a reading and at 7pm there will be
music from Womb & Dick Whyte (solo).
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