After Z-Hour
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Te Herenga Waka University Press
Published:30th Jul '15
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Stranded by a South Island storm, six people usurp the stillness of an old house. As they tell the fragments of their story, a seventh voice responds: a young New Zealand serviceman who died in 1920, soon after his return from France. As the storm deepens, the hauntings of the mind and the hauntings of the house become one. First published on Armistice Day 1987, After Z-Hour won the PEN Award for Best First Book of Prose.
Ghosts. Dreams. Haunted houses. Storm wracked landscapes. Thunder, lightning, rain, mud, and a corpse on the Takaka Hill road. The flash of thunder and artillery, Flanders mud, and corpses of 70 years ago. In the one text Elizabeth Knox weaves a marvellously compelling tale of the supernatural and of the ordinary." — M. G. Hitching, Otago Daily Times
"The author has done more than research the subject of frontline warfare thoroughly. She has internalized it all, and is able to bring it back out of her own imagination like the memory of a personal experience." — Margaret Mahy, NZ Listener
ISBN: 9780864739230
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304 pages