Cage
Publisher: Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780143772323
Subjects: New zealand, fiction; Fiction, political
Description: In the back garden of a quiet country hotel, two men are kept locked in a cage. Two mysterious strangers appear at a hotel in a small country town. There have they come from? Who are they? What catastrophe are they fleeing? The townspeople want answers, but the strangers are unable to speak of their trauma. And before long, wary hospitality shifts to suspicion and fear, and the care of the men slides into appalling cruelty. Lloyd Jones's fable-like novel The Cage is a profound and unsettling novel about humanity and dignity and the ease with which we're able to justify brutality.