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Edition 22 (2018)

Fiction (Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction)General non-fictionIllustrated non-fictionPoetry (Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry)Te Mūrau o te Tuhi – Māori Language AwardBest First Book awards (各部門)

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Pip Adam ぴっぷ あだむ Winner

A novel about people from different generations working in Auckland's fashion scene. Exhausted Generation X workers and younger figures with money and ideals collide around production and a photo shoot, bringing consumer culture, labor, bodies, and the lack of a clear future sharply into view.

Set in the fashion world, the novel searches for new forms of life amid the exhaustion of consumption and work.

223 pages
fashion industrygenerational conflictlaborconsumer societyAuckland