Amma
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
$22.56
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2026
Summary
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 Longlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction Named one of the best NZ books of 2024 by The Spinoff and Newsroom In the Bookety Book Books Reader’s Choice Top 10
“I couldn’t put it down - a moving, heartbreaking (and repairing) family drama. The writing is gorgeous, transporting, powerful: this will be one of the big adul…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781869718688 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1869718682 |
| Author: | Saraid de Silva |
| Publisher: | Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand |
| Imprint: | Moa Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Saraid de Silva
Saraid de Silva is a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Her debut novel, Amma, was published in Australia and New Zealand by Moa Press, part of Hachette Aotearoa, and in the UK by Weatherglass Books in 2024. In 2023 she was selected for Art Omi’s international writer’s residency in Columbia County, New York, and in 2025 she will be the New Zealand writer-in-residence at Randell Cottage in Wellington. Amma was long listed for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for fiction, part of the New Zealand book awards, and also for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2025.
Saraid was a contributor to A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand, and her work has been featured in The Spinoff, Fashion Quarterly, Pantograph Punch and Tupuranga Journal.
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