TY - BOOK AU - Clayton,Hamish TI - The pale north SN - 0143569260 AV - PR9699.C5457 U1 - NZ823.3 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Auckland PB - Penguin KW - Earthquakes KW - New Zealand KW - Fiction KW - Survival KW - Authors, New Zealand KW - New Zealand fiction KW - 21st century KW - Alternative histories (Fiction) KW - gsafd N1 - The city of lost things -- In dark arches N2 - "1998, Wellington. A series of catastrophic earthquakes has left the city destroyed. Returning to the ruin from London, a New Zealand writer explores the devastation, compelled to find out for himself what has become of the city he left years ago. As he drifts through the desolate streets, home now to the shell-shocked and dispossessed, he finds among the survivors a woman and a child. And although they are haunted, hostile and broken, the strangers feel eerily familiar to him: as if they promise the answers to the mysteries he once swore to leave behind"--Publisher information ER -