{"title":"Elleke Boehmer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElleke Boehmer\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts narratives that explore complex histories and personal identities, weaving rich layers of culture and memory. Her work often blends the lyrical with the political, inviting readers into deeply evocative stories set against dynamic backdrops.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom intricate fiction to compelling reflections on arts and culture, Boehmer’s books engage with themes of displacement, belonging, and transformation. Expect prose that challenges and enchants, illuminating the ties between place and self.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"to-the-volcano-and-other-stories-by-elleke-boehmer-9781912408245","title":"To the Volcano, and other stories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are stories of people caught up in a world that tilts seductively, sometimes dangerously, between south and north, between ambition and tradition, between light and dark. Her characters are poised to leave or on the point of return—often caught in limbo, haunted by their histories and veering between possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn African student in England longs for her desert home, a shy Argentinian travel agent agonises about joining her boyfriend in New York, a soldier is pursued by his past, a writer’s widow fends off the attentions of his predatory biographer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom story to story we walk through radically different worlds and journeys packed with hopes and ideals. Sharp, tender, and always arresting, these exquisitely written pieces crackle with luminous insights as characters struggle to find contentment—with their pasts, with one another, and with themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Compassionate, intelligent and evocative: this is morally serious writing, lucidly rendered.’ - Gail Jones, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Noah Glass\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Assured, accomplished...with passion and intelligence, and rare moral insight, Elleke Boehmer traces the scars left on the psyche by the tortuous histories of the South.’ - J.M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature and two-time Man Booker Prize recipient\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Arresting, intriguing, and brilliantly crafted.’ - Kwame Dawes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46846861508844,"sku":"9781912408245","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24836733482868.jpg?v=1758925074"},{"product_id":"southern-imagining-by-elleke-boehmer-9780691262048","title":"Southern Imagining","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudes.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south—the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, and southern Africa, among others—seems far away and ignorable. In \u003cem\u003eSouthern Imagining\u003c\/em\u003e, Elleke Boehmer offers an alternative perspective, using literary, scientific, and cultural material to explore how we look at the world from the south. Reading, she argues, is a transformative means of reversing our usual planetary orientation and rearranging our perceptual geography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoehmer examines writing from across southern continents and islands, considering how we imaginatively inhabit the farthest reaches of our planet. Creators ranging from the Portuguese epic poet Luís de Camões to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Darwin, Katherine Mansfield, Jorge Luis Borges, and ancient Indigenous storytellers capture the edgy and austere experiences of the far south.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor Boehmer, imaginative work stimulates and shapes our phenomenological understanding. Southerners often see themselves as far away from where things count, as outsiders, internalising the wider global sense of their relative insignificance. Conversely, when northerners read or hear legends, narratives, songs, and poems from the south, it is as if they are located in the south, at least for the duration of the reading or listening. Boehmer suggests that the south-tilted world map, re-centred through song and story, invites us to claim a more involved sense of belonging to our planet, both its north and its south. The writers of the south disrupt conventional ways of seeing and invite us to inhabit our globe differently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47559016087788,"sku":"9780691262048","price":69.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691262048-southern-imagining.jpg?v=1776926409"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/elleke-boehmer.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}