Potiki

Author: Patricia Grace
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742287913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
Patricia Grace's classic novel is a work of spellbinding power in which the myths of older times are inextricably woven into the political realities of today. In a small coastal community threatened by developers who would ravage their lands it is a time of fear and confusion – and growing anger. The prophet child Tokowaru-i-te-Marama shares his people's struggles against bulldozers and fast money talk. When dramatic events menace the marae, his grief threatens to burst beyond the confines of his twisted body. His all-seeing eye looks forward to a strange and terrible new dawn. Potiki won the New Zealand Book Awards in 1987.

Potiki

Author: Patricia Grace
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0241413559
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
'Provocative, compassionate and beautiful' - Joy Harjo, US Poet Laureate A moving story of a Maori community's fight for survival, from one of New Zealand's most prominent and celebrated authors On the remote coast of New Zealand, at the curve that binds the land and the sea, a small Maori community live, work, fish, play and tell stories of their ancestors. But something is changing. The prophet child toko can sense it. Men are coming, with dollars and big plans to develop the area for tourism. As their ancestral land becomes threatened, the people must unite in a battle for survival. Weaving together myth and memory, Patricia Grace's prize-winning novel is a spellbinding portrait of a defiant community determined to protect their way of life at any cost.

Dogside Story

Author: Patricia Grace
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742288162
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
There is conflict in the whanau. The young man Te Rua holds a secret for life, the one to die with . But he realises that if he is to acknowledge and claim his daughter, the secret will have to be told. The Sisters are threatening to drag the whanau through the courts. But why? What is really going on? Meanwhile, wider events are encroaching. Visitors will arrive in numbers to this East Coast site, wanting to be among the first in the world to see the new millennium. There are plans to be put into action, there's money to be made, and there's high drama as the millennium turns . . . Like Potiki before it, Dogside Story is set in a rural Maori coastal community. The power of the land and the strength of the whanau are life-preserving forces. This rich and vivid novel, threaded with humour, presents a powerful picture of Maori in modern times. Also available as an eBook

Electric City

Author: Patricia Grace
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742539718
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
These are short stories about ordinary folk leading seemingly ordinary lives. The power of community, extended family and culture are central to all. Thirteen stories in which the joys of discovery are tempered by the knowledge of a harder, colder world. Sunlight, childhood and nature set against conflict and misunderstanding, in the ever-present shadows of the spirit of the land.

Waiariki

Author: Patricia Grace
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 174253970X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Patricia Grace's popular first collection – sensitive stories of Maori life which explore Maori spirituality and values and pursue relationships between people, family and races. Also available as an eBook

The Journal of the Polynesian Society

Author: Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Polynesia
Languages : en
Pages : 780

Book Description
Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.

Memoirs of the Polynesian Society

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description

Small Holes in the Silence

Author: Patricia Grace
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 145962467X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
This is a fine new collection of short stories by the much-loved Patricia Grace, probably never more popular since the great commercial success of the novel Tu. The feast of stories is varied: urban, rural, New Zealand, overseas, tribal, contemporary. The thread that runs through all the stories, though, is Grace's huge sympathy for the underdog and the perspective of the outsider. The world she depicts is often a stark and unsentimental place, in which people struggle against ageing, rejection, violence and betrayal.

Pouliuli

Author: Albert Wendt
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824807283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
What happens when an old man wakes up one morning and finds that everything around him now fills with revulsion? What happens when Faleasa Osovae, the highest ranking alii in the village of Maalaelua, feigns madness and throws away his responsibilities as a chief?

Chappy

Author: Patricia Grace
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1743486871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Spanning several decades and several continents and set against the backdrop of a changing New Zealand, Chappy is a compelling story of enduring love. Uprooted from his privileged European life and sent to New Zealand to sort himself out, twenty-one-year-old Daniel pieces together the history of his Maori family. As his relatives revisit their past, Daniel learns of a remarkable love story between his Maori grandmother Oriwia and his Japanese grandfather Chappy. The more Daniel hears about his deceased grandfather, the more intriguing – and elusive – Chappy becomes. In this touching portrayal of family life, acclaimed writer Patricia Grace explores racial intolerance, cross-cultural conflicts and the universal desire to belong. Also available as an eBook.