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FICTION
216 Pages, 5.5 x 8.25
Formats: EPUB
EPUB, $9.99 (US $9.99) (CA $12.99)
Publication Date: October 2013
ISBN 9780864739568
Rights: WOR
Victoria University Press (Oct 2013)
In the near future, an exact replica of the world’s tallest tower, the Burj Khalifa, is being built on New Zealand’s West Coast. It’s an exercise in economic stimulation and national confidence-building after a run of natural and financial disasters, and Catherine is the engineer in charge of making sure it all works. She feels there is something wrong in the plans, or is there something wrong in her? The novel travels from the top of the tower to a geodesic dome in a park in London; from the Grand Lisboa in Macau to student accommodation in Wellington; and from a South Auckland theme park to the Pompidou Centre, exploring the way chance events can undo the best efforts of human beings to plan and build their lives and worlds. I’m Working on a Building reveals the way that everything becomes clearer in reverse, because sometimes things have to be taken apart in order to be understood.
Pip Adam is the author of Everything We Hoped For, which won the New Zealand Post Book Award for Best First Book, and she has written for journals and newspapers that include Blackmail Press, Glottis, Hue & Cry, Landfall, Lumière Reader, Metro, Sport, and Turbine. She is also the recipient of an Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Award.
