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Bonsai Best Small Stories from Aotearoa New Zealand

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Bonsai Best Small Stories from Aotearoa New Zealand

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Author: Michelle Elvy
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31/08/2018
Imprint: CANTERBURY UNI. PRESS
ISBN: 9781927145982

Bonsai brings together a pioneering collection of flash fiction and associated forms (prose poetry and haibun) from 165 writers in Aotearoa New Zealand, along with intriguing essays on this increasingly popular genre. In 200 small stories of no more than 300 words, where the translucent boundaries between prose and poetry are oftentransgressed, we discover a vast array of human experience. Here, children race snails, shoot tin cans, learn to fly, and look for Antarctica in a drain pipe, while Schrdingers cat dreams of life and death, a dog licks away a womans tears, and a peacock guards its human family. Family tensions spill over during trips to the beach, couples get together and fall apart, babies are born or not born and parents die. You might find yourself dancing like the cool kids, listening to a neighbour sing in the dark, or watching a tractor catch fire. There are perfect moments in miniature as dew falls on a spiders web and strangers make eye contact. Composed with precision in a form where every word counts, these carefully chiselled works are provocative, tender and endlessly surprising.

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