Mr. Beethoven Witi Ihimaera whether that’s Cleo's best friend

whether that’s Cleo's best friend struggling to embrace his gender identity in the wake of her marriage

Ngahuia Te Awekotuku

Based on Jack Kerouac's own real-life love affair in Mexico city

he decides to remarry - with devastating consequences

its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness

Mr. Beethoven Witi Ihimaera whether that’s Cleo's best friendShortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize Based on the German composer's own correspondence, this inventive, counterfactual work of historical fiction imagines Beethoven traveling to America to write an oratorio based on the Book of Job. It is a matter of historical record that in 1823 the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston (active to this day) sought to commission Beethoven to write an oratorio. The premise of Paul Griffithss ingenious novel is that