- New Zealand Book Award for Fiction 2019 · Shortlist
The Cage
The Cage
Lloyd Jones (born 1955)
English editions
Written in EnglishThe Cage
Text Publishing · United Kingdom · 30 August 2018 · Paperback
The Cage
Penguin · New Zealand · 29 January 2018 · Paperback · 272 pages
The Cage
Text Publishing · Australia · 29 January 2018 · Paperback · 288 pages
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Two mysterious men check into the only hotel of a little rural town. No one knows where they have come from or what catastrophe they have fled, and they cannot speak of what they have been through. The townspeople want answers. Their cautious welcome sours into distrust and dread, and the strangers end up confined and studied, while a young narrator records their every habit in flat detail. In this fable, watching the outsiders reveals much more about those doing the watching, about how decent communities learn to treat others as less than human, and about the question of when a witness knows what is coming and why he does nothing.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- First published
- 2018
- Author's age
- 63 when first published
- ISBN
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9780143772323 (Penguin, New Zealand)
9781925603224 (Text Publishing, Australia)
9781911231202 (Text Publishing, United Kingdom)