The Fable of Flitcroft Point: A controversial novel that turns New Zealand history upside down - Softcover

Bolton, Robert Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0473617064 ISBN 13: 9780473617066

Publisher: National Library of New Zealand, 2022

Synopsis

Early in the twenty-first century a series of viruses killed eighty percent of the world’s population. Famine loomed.
In New Zealand there was plenty of food but too few people to process it. The surviving city folk therefore fled to the countryside where they provided labour to the remaining farmers in return for a share of the food they helped produce. As a result the country’s towns and cities were abandoned.
Into this vacuum came the invading Vandiers, so numerous and wealthy they dominated the small Kiwiland population whose traditions, culture, religion and language they despised.
The Fable of Flitcroft Point is set in a typical Kiwiland village where, in 2177, the land-grabbing Vandier government has taken village land for its own purposes. The Kiwilanders, angry and frustrated, want their land back. But can their feeble protest succeed against the overwhelming power of central government?

Edition details

• Publisher: National Library of New Zealand
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0473617064
• ISBN 13: 9780473617066
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 153