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Bug Week

Airini Beautrais

2021184 pagesabout 3–4 hours
2021
first published
  • 2021Victoria University of Wellington Press · ENGISBN 9781776563821
  • 2021Victoria University Press · 184 pages · ENGISBN 9781776563050

"A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a scalpel-clean examination of male entitlement, a dissection of death, an agar plate of mundanity. From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, Bug Week traverses the weird, the wry and the grotesque in a story collection of human taxonomy."--Publisher description.

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