Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly
'The modern world is too much for me. I feel like I'm George of the Jungle.' --Greta'At the moment, for personal reasons, I don't like reading things about people being in love with each other.' --Valdin Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but now drives around Buenos Aires in one. Greta is in love with her fellow English tutor Holly, who doesn't know how to pronounce Greta's surname, Vladisavljevic, properly. From their Auckland apartment, brother and sister must navigate the intricate paths of modern romance as well as weather the small storms of their eccentric Maori-Russian-Catalonian family. This beguiling and hilarious novel by Adam Foundation Prize winner Rebecca K Reilly owes as much to Shakespeare as it does to Tinder. Set in a world that is deeply familiar (but also a bit sexier and more stylish than the real one), Greta and Valdin will speak to anyone who has had their heart broken, or has decided that they don't want to be a physicist anymore, or has wondered about all of the things they don't know about their family.
REBECCA REILLY teaches creative writing at The New School, and is a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. She taught for a number of years at The University of Paris, at Nanterre, and has taught at The New School, Parsons Paris, as well as Humboldt University in Berlin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781776564194 |
| ISBN 10 | 1776564197 |
| Title | Greta and Valdin |
| Author | Rebecca K Reilly |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Year published | 2021-05-13 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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