num_pages: 306
description: Nadejda is backpacking around New Zealand in the surreal haze of summer. Her encounters are comic and revealing - and often sexual. But Nadejda's tour is a deep and personal one; it is a journey into memory and family myth.
language: English
title: Reconnaisance
titlecomplete: Reconnaisance
ratings_count: 22
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best First Book in South East Asia and Pacific
publisher: Penguin Books (NZ)