Treasure

by Elizabeth Knox

American preacher Deane Omo flies in to the Wellington mission of his family’s Charismatic church to heal the sick, and to bring his cousin Mayhew Quitman back into the fold. In a flat high above the city, Kath and Martin play out the difficult early months of their relationship. And at the National Museum, Frances Kirby, ailing and nearing retirement, receives in the mail a black disc with mysterious properties.

Treasure is an audacious novel in which unlikely worlds collide. In settings as various as the Museum’s Beetle Room, a downtown funeral parlour, and the Christian settlement of White Steppes, North Carolina, Elizabeth Knox brings to sensuous life a group of hypnotically real characters, then draws them together in the White Steppes Bethesda’s big New Zealand production: The Miracle Healing Rally.

334 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1992

About the author

Elizabeth Knox was born in Wellington‚ New Zealand‚ and is the author of eleven novels and three novella and a book of essays.

Reviews

[Natalie]

Very pleasing and challenging and engrossing book. Made me feel very smart and New Zealand while reading it-- lucky find in an op shop. Weaved everything back together so neatly I forgave the out-there components. Surreal magical realism Twilight Zone containing evangelism and faith healing.. suicide and love affairs, authors, museum curators, Something Unexplained From Another World. On the streets of windy welly!

[Donald Schopflocher]

Getting her feet under her in the fantasy genre.