Amma by Saraid de Silva - ISBN: 9781869718688
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Secrets, love, and shifting cultures bind three generations of women.

Amma

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    31 March 2026

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Summary

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 Longlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction Named one of the best NZ books of 2024 by The Spinoff and Newsroom In the Bookety Book Books Reader’s Choice Top 10

“I couldn’t put it down - a moving, heartbreaking (and repairing) family drama. The writing is gorgeous, transporting, powerful: this will be one of the big adul…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781869718688
ISBN-10:1869718682
Author:Saraid de Silva
Publisher:Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
Imprint:Moa Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:31 March 2026
Weight:220g
Dimensions:198mm x 127mm x 22mm
About The Author

Saraid de Silva

Saraid de Silva is a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand.

Her debut novel, Amma, was published in Australia and New Zealand by Moa Press, part of Hachette Aotearoa, and in the UK by Weatherglass Books in 2024. In 2023 she was selected for Art Omi’s international writer’s residency in Columbia County, New York, and in 2025 she will be the New Zealand writer-in-residence at Randell Cottage in Wellington. Amma was long listed for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for fiction, part of the New Zealand book awards, and also for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2025.

Saraid was a contributor to A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand, and her work has been featured in The Spinoff, Fashion Quarterly, Pantograph Punch and Tupuranga Journal.

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