Celebrating South Asian Authors from Aotearoa

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Celebrating South Asian Authors from Aotearoa

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Celebrating South Asian Authors from Aotearoa

Saraid de Silva curates a selection of recent books by Aotearoa’s South Asian writers.

Read Saraid's editorial here.

Cover of Slow Down, You're Here

Slow Down, You're Here

by

$25.00 NZD

Cover of When I Reach for Your Pulse

Cover of Past the Tower, Under the Tree: Twelve Stories of Learning in Community: 2023

Past the Tower, Under the Tree: Twelve Stories of Learning in Community: 2023

Twelve Stories of Learning in Community

by

Cover of A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand

Cover of Visible Cities: Lockdown to liberation, stress to sustainability: Aotearoa fiction inspired by Italo Calvino

Cover of The Grandmothers of Pikitea Street

Cover of The Bad Smell Hotel

Cover of Lucy and the Dark

Cover of I am the Universe

Cover of When I Open the Shop

Cover of Amma

2

When I Reach for Your Pulse

by

$30.00 NZD

4

A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand

New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand

by

$60.00 NZD

5

Visible Cities: Lockdown to liberation, stress to sustainability: Aotearoa fiction inspired by Italo Calvino

Lockdown to liberation, stress to sustainability: Aotearoa fiction inspired by Italo Calvino

by

$30.00 NZD

6

The Grandmothers of Pikitea Street

by

$22.99 NZD

7

The Bad Smell Hotel

by

$25.00 NZD

8

Lucy and the Dark

by

$21.00 NZD

9

I am the Universe

by

$25.00 NZD

10

When I Open the Shop

by

$35.00 NZD

11

Amma

by

$37.99 NZD