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Isobar Precinct
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Who would you go back for? Lestari Aris is a woman on the edge. Her tattoo studio on Karangahape Road is hammered by burglaries; the hangers-on in her life, from a teenage runaway to a married cop, are bonded to her for reasons she can't fathom....
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Isobar Precinct
A chain of events sparked by a murder in a cemetery sends tattoo artist Lestari Cassidy into the orbit of an unpredictable drug. Isobar Precinct is an audacious and structurally playful book that challenges notions of time, explores the burden of choice when technologies alienate more than assist and asks what lengths we’ll go to save a loved one.
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Who would you go back for?
Lestari Aris is a woman on the edge. Her tattoo studio on Karangahape Road is hammered by burglaries; the hangers-on in her life, from a teenage runaway to a married cop, are bonded to her for reasons she can't fathom. And years after Lestari's father disappeared, her Indonesian mother is still lost in a self-medicated blur.
When a murder in Symonds Street Cemetery whirls Lestari into the orbit of an unpredictable drug, she uncovers a decades-long covert clinical study targeting rough sleepers and others on the fringes—and its dark connections with her own life and history. Everything is connected: the past is circling. How far will Lestari go to save someone she loves?
Set in a vivid, grimy inner-city Auckland, Isobar Precinct is an audacious novel that explores perceptions of time and progress, and asks whether the past ever disappears. It also marks Angelique Kasmara as a writer to watch.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781988595436
Publisher: The Cuba Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 August 2021
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: The Cuba Press
Audience: General / adult
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Weight: 0g
About the Author
Angelique Kasmara has a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Auckland. She was a finalist for the Michael Gifkins Prize and won the Sir James Wallace Prize in 2016. Some of her fiction appears in Newsroom, Ko Aotearoa Tatou | We Are New Zealand and A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices. Angelique lives in Tamaki Makaurau where she works as a communications manager, writer, translator and reviewer.
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