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the story into a single linear quest for the great wine that Jodeau will drink before he dies. He also criticised Caro's approach to the sexual relationships in the film, particularly that between Xas and Sobran: "In the book this is either the great love of Sobran’s life, or one of them; the fact that the answer could be given either way tells you something about the nuanced complexity of the writing." In the film Xas asks Sobran to cut off his wings, rather than them being forcibly removed by Lucifer. Larsen noted that this appeared to have homophobic subtext but that this may have been due to the difficulties in the film's production process.
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to research. She has said, however, that she was more concerned with creativity than research, particularly given that the book features an angel: "All I had to do was make it seem real." She also invented the internal theology for the novel, including the nature of heaven and hell and of angels. She described herself as a "very Christian atheist", who "thinks about religion and human beings' place in the universe". The fictional
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in 2000. Victoria University Press published a limited edition hardback edition in 2008 to celebrate the novel's tenth anniversary and a "VUP Classic" edition in 2019. It has been published in German, Dutch, Norwegian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Italian and Korean. Although the word "vintner" generally
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Knox had never been to Burgundy nor had any experience with the wine-making process. In order to write the book, she researched wine-making in New Zealand and Burgundy, as well as historical wine-making. She found minor details, such as the exact usage of steam engines used to pump out mines, hardest
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At the time of its publication, it was unusual for New Zealand fiction to be set outside of New Zealand and to involve elements of magical realism and fantasy. Knox has said she has always wanted to expand the meaning of New Zealand literature, and that she decided she "could just widen the brief of
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Over time, Jodeau falls in love with Xas, but after learning that Xas is a fallen angel, feels conflicted. He develops a closer relationship with Aurora de Valday, the widowed niece of a local nobleman, and she learns of his relationship with Xas. One visit Xas is wounded by Lucifer, and "given" to
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In a 2016 article for the Academy of New Zealand Literature, David Larsen discussed the relationship of the film to the novel. He noted that the screenplay opened with the main character, Sobran Jodeau, on his deathbed, and frames the story as a flashback. This approach, Larsen suggested, distorts
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praised the book's opening for its "spare stylish precision" and said that "Ms. Knox displays considerable talent throughout", but felt that the book lost momentum, concluding that "Ms. Knox clearly can fabricate a strange tale, but in this one she has not succeeded in exploiting the interesting
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what a New Zealand writer might be". Knox described the novel's genre as fantasy, rather than magical realism. She has also said that she sees her fantasy work as "a fantastic naturalism, a fantastic element in a world that is very real, and so the fantastic things have to be very real too".
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Xas thereafter visits Jodeau in the same place, once a year, with each annual visit constituting a chapter of the book, and their relationship develops. Each chapter title bears the year and the name of a different stage in the wine-making process. The first chapter is titled "1808
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young-adult novels in 2005 and 2007. In 2009, after a difficult year for her family, she said: "I know it's taking a long time but the living I do in between each book, and lessons I learn, I apply to Xas in learning how to be human. And there's been a lot of learning this year."
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The novel chronicles the life of a peasant winemaker, Sobran Jodeau, and his long and enduring relationship with the angel Xas over 55 years. It opens with 18-year-old Jodeau, drunk and unhappy in love, on the ridge of the sloping hills of his family's vineyard in
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described the book as a "wonderfully imaginative tale"; although "arguably overplotted", Knox's "ferocious display of inventive power redeems and enlivens even the book's more extravagant convolutions". The conclusion was that the novel was "one-of-a-kind".
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of the title), Sobran Jodeau, and an angel, Xas, who first visits Jodeau on a midsummer's eve in 1808, when he is 18 years old, and again each year on the same day. The novel won several prestigious awards including the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 1999
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Knox had planned to write a sequel after finishing the novel, but after it became a bestseller, felt she "couldn't possibly do that again". She only felt sufficiently confident to tackle the sequel after the success of her
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was available for purchase, she visited Knox's home doorstep with flowers and suggested that she purchase the option. At that time, Knox said she was confident Caro would do the novel justice.
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In the mid 1990s Knox was working part-time and parenting, and felt she had little time to sit down and think about a new novel. She began writing after having a fever dream while ill with
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said "Knox's evocation of Thirties California is dreamy, and her characters, interestingly warped". At the time Knox said that she was intending to write a third book in the series,
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won Knox widespread critical acclaim, and it raised her profile within New Zealand and overseas. The novel sold very well in New Zealand, Australia and Britain (where it featured on
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gave the novel an A− grade, concluding: "Daringly exploring the spiritual worth of sensual pleasure, New Zealand writer Elizabeth Knox’s imaginative, imagistic tale soars." Actress
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found the structure, plot twists and alternative universe of the novel intriguing, but ultimately felt that readers would be left "impressed but not totally enthusiastic".
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The book received mixed reviews in the United States, with critics agreeing that the book had "flashes of brilliance" but disagreeing about its consistency, according to
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s Isobel Montgomery praised the "angelic writing and inspired structure", but concluded that "the divine and the everyday do not quite mesh into a satisfying whole".
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The development of a film adaptation of the novel was announced in 2003, to be directed and co-written by New Zealand director
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means wine merchant, Knox chose the title because Californian winemakers call themselves vintners. She was aware that
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grapes – the variety of Sobran and Céleste's nuptial wine, which Sobran shared with Xas at their second meeting
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s bestseller list for three weeks). In New Zealand it sold over 60,000 copies, and in 2018, readers of
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Jodeau, where much of the book takes place, is described in the book as being on a hill near real-life
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This article is about the 1998 novel by Elizabeth Knox. For the 2009 film adaptation, see
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two months after Bernstein's review, said that "Xas is one of the best angels since
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and the inaugural Tasmania Pacific Region Prize for best novel. It was adapted into
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40,000 Tasmania Pacific Region Prize, then Australasia's richest literary prize.
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in 2003, saying it was "the best story I've read in the past few years".
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Cardy, Tom (4 July 2003). "Vintner's Luck to get Whale Rider touch".
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Haden, Frank (26 November 2005). "Americans blamed for book's name".
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Hunter, Martin (28 July 1999). "Vintner's Luck wins the bubbly".
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The final meeting between Jodeau and Xas is in the chapter "1863
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Moiser-Gerbaud, Tama (1 August 1999). "An angel and her fable".
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voted it to be the best New Zealand novel of the last 50 years.
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In 2009 the adaptation was released, under the title
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Index

The Vintner's Luck (film)

Victoria University Press
Elizabeth Knox
Fantasy
romance
Burgundy
Victoria University Press
Chatto & Windus
Vintage Books
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Picador
Montana New Zealand Book Awards
ISBN
9780864733429
Elizabeth Knox
vintner
Montana New Zealand Book Awards
a 2009 film
Several bunches of dark red grapes on the vine in sunlight
Pinot noir
Burgundy
Napoleonic Wars
Lucifer

Elizabeth Knox
pneumonia
Clos
Aluze
Saône

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