Sprigs / Brannavan Gnanalingam.

By:

Gnanalingam, Brannavan, 1983- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [Wellington], Aotearoa/New Zealand : Lawrence & Gibson, [2020] Edition: First editionDescription: 438 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

9780473526382
0473526387

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

New Zealand fiction -- 21st century.

DDC classification:

NZ823.3 23

Summary: It is Saturday afternoon and two boys' schools are locked in battle for college rugby supremacy. Priya - a fifteen year old who barely belongs - watches from the sidelines. Then it is Saturday night and the team is partying. Priya's friends have evaporated and she isn't sure what to do. In the weeks after 'the incident' life seems to go on. But when whispers turn to confrontation, the institutions of wealth and privilege circle the wagons. Sprigs is the latest novel from Brannavan Gnanalingam. His previous novel Sodden Downstreamas short-listed for the Acorn Foundation prize for best fiction of the year.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Fiction	Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage	Fiction	GNAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Not for loan		A00731726

"This book is about sexual violence and features frequent discussions of sexual violence, suicide, violence, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia"--Unnumbered page 5.

It is Saturday afternoon and two boys' schools are locked in battle for college rugby supremacy. Priya - a fifteen year old who barely belongs - watches from the sidelines. Then it is Saturday night and the team is partying. Priya's friends have evaporated and she isn't sure what to do. In the weeks after 'the incident' life seems to go on. But when whispers turn to confrontation, the institutions of wealth and privilege circle the wagons. Sprigs is the latest novel from Brannavan Gnanalingam. His previous novel Sodden Downstreamas short-listed for the Acorn Foundation prize for best fiction of the year.

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