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Flying godwits and migrating kiwis: Towards another summer

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posted on 2024-11-12, 16:56 authored by Dorothy Jones
Grace Cleave, a New Zealand writer living in London and heroine of Janet Frame’s novel, Towards Another Summer, undergoes a mysterious transformation prompted by weather reports of a slow thaw spreading from the west: ‘you see, during the night Grace Cleave had changed to a migratory bird’ (6). There are echoes here of Kafka’s story ‘Metamorphosis’:

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