Author(s): Ian Wedde

New Zealand Literature

Chinese Opera is a dark and dazzling novel set in an all too plausible New Zealand of the near future.

'Little Frank is 120 years old and he's lost his mind or the part that can put damaged memories back together. Once the gang boss of The Place hes traded his imagination for secure long life. Trapped in a luxurious present of mindless routine, he's jolted awake in 2090 to the bizarre facts of his world: his obsession with the female lead at the Chinese Opera, his unsavoury liaison with the Binh Xuyen body-part pirates, their surveillance of his movements. Above all, his lost memory of the moment in a pine-scented limo when he traded his imagination for long life. First published September 2008, Wellington