Te Kauhanga A Tale of Spaces edition by Antony Millen Literature Fiction eBooks
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In the town of Te Kauhanga ...
Montreal Perec is an accomplished cartographer with unusual powers of perception. He lives as a recluse in his lighthouse-like home, determined to locate the treasure of his ancestors.
Sharon Pellerine works for the local council. An attractive woman, she is desired by various rural and municipal courters, until they discover her sad secret.
Stanley Kowalczyk is an insurance adjuster with an obsession with straight lines and a weakness for beautiful women.
These characters’ lives revolve around the apparently perishing tree of Taumata—an enormous tree, one of the legendary legs of Tāne Mahuta and a taonga to local Māori.
As debate rages in the township about the tree’s future, Perec is led closer to his treasure by the activities of his fellow residents.
Te Kauhanga is a highly entertaining and mysterious tale of spaces that examines how our position and movement in this world influence others.
“This book races along. Amazing characters, whacky as hell, brilliantly structured and hugely entertaining.” – James Russell, author of The Dragon Brothers Trilogy
Te Kauhanga A Tale of Spaces edition by Antony Millen Literature Fiction eBooks
I enjoyed this book more than I've enjoyed a novel for a long long time. For me, my pleasure in the story was derived mainly from the characters themselves.They were so deliciously weird and flawed. I promise you, you've never met characters with quirks like these had. But they managed to be believable. The interactions of these fascinating people all existing in one small town in the central North Island of New Zealand was bound to be both traumatic and intriguing.One important character only came into play through computer messages. Another believed in only walking in straight lines because his parents had told him that was the most efficient way to travel, so he walked in straight lines even if it meant trespassing. In contrast to that, another main character lived mentally in two dimensions - his parents had told him to live a multi-dimensional life but he became an obsessive map-maker. So while one character obeyed his parents to the letter - the other did the opposite.
One utterly neat and efficient female character, lived perfectly on the outside only - inside was a different story, both physically and emotionally and her house reflected herself.
What was the significance of the blind man? The homeless man? The woman in the red cap? The running girl? The giant tree that shadowed all their lives? All had their part to play.
The story has an authenticity about its way of describing current and historic interactions between the native people of this land and the settlers who came from so far away to live with them, from hundreds of years ago to the present day. The shadows of those early explorers and settlers and their indigenous hosts, are shown throughout the story, still echoing through the lives of their modern counterparts.
I find myself puzzling over the repeated spiral motif in the story. With New-Zealand being the land of spirals, did they represent the link between NZ and the wider world? Or perhaps something more than that? The link between the spirit and the universe? Sometimes I think of other interpretations and I'm sure it was the author's intention that I continue to wonder after reading the final page.
How anyone could dream up such characters escapes me. Between them they allow their creator, the author, to weave a story so original, I defy anyone to find one remotely like it. Highly recommended.
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Te Kauhanga A Tale of Spaces edition by Antony Millen Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Te Kauhanga A Tale of Space(s) is Antony's second novel and is quite different from his first Redeeming Brother Murrihy The River To Hiruharama. Brother Murrihy is written in first person and is basically about one character's search for his brother but Te Kauhanga A Tale of Space(s) is written in third person and has a quirky and diverse cast of characters inhabiting a small town in New Zealand's central North Island. While Conrad in Brother Murrihy travels across the world in search of his brother, no one in Te Kauhanga seem to want to travel anywhere - not out of Te Kauhanga and not out of their own little suburb if they can help it - one of the characters, Montreal Perec, will not even leave his house unless under extreme pressure (except every Waitangi day).
I loved the way these characters were connected to each other but not in any contrived or obvious way. They all played their part in the story without ever really knowing that they were all connected except that they knew each other by sight as "the woman with the red hat" or "the homeless man". I liked all the personalities in this book - they all had their own quirks and peculiarities and they all worked as individuals.
While this is really a character driven story the plot is also well constructed and intriguing. What is the treasure that Montreal Perec is searching for? How will the debate around the giant tree "Taumata" be resolved? What has the homeless man got do to with any of this?
I really liked the way that Antony wove the legends and history of New Zealand / Aotearoa in to the story in such a way that you can't tell where the history leaves off and the fiction begins. That lends an authenticity to the story which make you think that this could all be for real.
This book is the kind of book that will stay with you long after you finish reading it - the characters are so well written that they take on a life of their own which you know will continue after the last page - you can just imagine Stanley, Sharon, Kathleen and Kiri all continuing their lives in Te Kauhanga all having been affected by the events of the book - as indeed to whole town would have been - but essentially carrying on as before, albeit a little older and hopefully a little wiser (Wisdom comes with age, but sometime age comes by itself...)
I can't recommend this book enough - you will not be able to put it down - it will draw you in and make you want to move to the central North Island of New Zealand!
I enjoyed this book more than I've enjoyed a novel for a long long time. For me, my pleasure in the story was derived mainly from the characters themselves.They were so deliciously weird and flawed. I promise you, you've never met characters with quirks like these had. But they managed to be believable. The interactions of these fascinating people all existing in one small town in the central North Island of New Zealand was bound to be both traumatic and intriguing.
One important character only came into play through computer messages. Another believed in only walking in straight lines because his parents had told him that was the most efficient way to travel, so he walked in straight lines even if it meant trespassing. In contrast to that, another main character lived mentally in two dimensions - his parents had told him to live a multi-dimensional life but he became an obsessive map-maker. So while one character obeyed his parents to the letter - the other did the opposite.
One utterly neat and efficient female character, lived perfectly on the outside only - inside was a different story, both physically and emotionally and her house reflected herself.
What was the significance of the blind man? The homeless man? The woman in the red cap? The running girl? The giant tree that shadowed all their lives? All had their part to play.
The story has an authenticity about its way of describing current and historic interactions between the native people of this land and the settlers who came from so far away to live with them, from hundreds of years ago to the present day. The shadows of those early explorers and settlers and their indigenous hosts, are shown throughout the story, still echoing through the lives of their modern counterparts.
I find myself puzzling over the repeated spiral motif in the story. With New-Zealand being the land of spirals, did they represent the link between NZ and the wider world? Or perhaps something more than that? The link between the spirit and the universe? Sometimes I think of other interpretations and I'm sure it was the author's intention that I continue to wonder after reading the final page.
How anyone could dream up such characters escapes me. Between them they allow their creator, the author, to weave a story so original, I defy anyone to find one remotely like it. Highly recommended.
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