Angelique kasmara (2 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 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. 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 well go to save a loved one. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 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. 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 well go to save a loved one. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…