Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room

A rather gruesome allegory of miracles and life after death. Godfrey Rainbird, a young Englishman living in New Zealand, is killed in a traffic accident and is about to be buried when, a day and a half after his death, he rises from his coffin and declares himself quite alive. Whether this was a genuine resurrection or merely a well-timed coma, it makes Godfrey a pariah in the eyes of all his friends and ensures that no one will feel terribly comfortable in his presence again. Dismissed from his job and shunned by his family and neighbors, Godfrey comes to believe that he had been happier in his coffin.