I wish, I wish
By: Zirk van den Berg
Series: The Cuba Press novella series -- 02; Cuba Press novella series -- 1
Publisher: The Cuba Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Wellington, Aotearoa
Language: eng
Translated from: afr
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781988595283
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Undertakers and undertaking; Fiction; Families; Middle-aged men
Work titles: Ek wens, ek wens
Description: "As a mortician, Seb has mastered the art of making the dead resemble the living. He has embalmed countless corpses, unpacked organs, reset bones and made up pallid faces for their final viewing. If he’s honest, he prefers the company of the deceased – no surprises and nobody to witness his inadequacy. But they don’t make for great work stories – nothing for his teenage children to look up to or to attract the waning interest of his wife. It looks like another humdrum day at White Lily Funerals when Seb meets Gabe, a dying boy unusually interested in caskets, who forces the mortician to rearrange the pieces of his life and shows him that magic doesn’t have to be just a wish."--Back cover.
Notes: Novella.

"As a mortician, Seb has mastered the art of making the dead resemble the living. He has embalmed countless corpses, unpacked organs, reset bones and made up pallid faces for their final viewing. If he's honest, he prefers the company of the deceased - no surprises and nobody to witness his inadequacy. But they don't make for great work stories - nothing for his teenage children to look up to or to attract the waning interest of his wife. It looks like another humdrum day at White Lily Funerals when Seb meets Gabe, a dying boy unusually interested in caskets, who forces the mortician to rearrange the pieces of his life and shows him that magic doesn't have to be just a wish"--Back cover.