Aurélie

by Chad Taylor

An art thief hired to steal Hokusai's Great Wave reaches a breaking point when she must free the original woodblock print from a radioactive safe abandoned in the wake of the 2011 Japan tsunami. Aurélie is a fast-paced, tightly plotted modern noir short story by Chad Taylor, the author of the novels Pack of Lies, Heaven, Shirker, Electric and Departure Lounge and the short story collection The Man Who Wasn't Feeling Himself. His most recent novel is The Church of John Coltrane.

45 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 19, 2017

About the author

Chad Taylor is the author of the novels Blue Hotel, Departure Lounge, Electric, Shirker, Heaven, Pack of Lies and The Church of John Coltrane. He was awarded the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship and the Auckland University Literary Fellowship. Heaven was made as a feature film and his novels and stories are in translation. He wrote the movie Realiti which was selected for Fantastic Fest. Blue Hotel was a finalist for Best Novel in the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Awards.