> Audiobook
> English author, orig. published 2003
> Characters: Joseph & Harriet and his mother, Lillian (emigrate to New Zealand from England), Dorothy and her son Edwin (was blown off the porch by a powerful wind as an infant), the Maori Paree who was Edwin's nanny, Will (boy who sold himself to Joseph for sexual favors), Chin Pao Yi (Chinese vegetable merchant who had left family back in China
> Start a farm in New Zealand.....Joseph discovers a small amount of gold in their stream and becomes infected by the need for "the colour".....the couple drift apart
> Beautiful prose, poetic
> Chin Li....found gold in his vegetable patch
> Edwin has a deep spiritual connection to Paree....when she disappears, he believes he is dying......
> LibraryThing Review: Read this novel and become engrossed in the hearts and minds of Harriet & Joseph, Dorothy & Edwin, Chin Pao Yi and more. Follow the harsh details of survival in New Zealand, where so many try to find "the colour" of gold in the mountains. This story is harsh, the prose is lyrical, spiritual, and terrible. I could hardly stop until I finished. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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