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Author :Patricia Grace Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :1742287913 Total Pages :184 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Potiki written by Patricia Grace and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2001-09-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Potiki written by Patricia Grace and published by . This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, when Allen Lane founded Penguin Books with a clear vision- 'We believed in the existence of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price, and staked everything on it.' Winning the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction in 1987, Potiki follows a small coastal community threatened by developers. 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, his all-seeing eye looking forward to a strange and terrible new dawn.
Download or read book Potiki written by Patricia Grace and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.
Author :Patricia Grace Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :1742288162 Total Pages :299 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Dogside Story written by Patricia Grace and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2001-09-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author :Patricia Grace Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :174253970X Total Pages :121 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Waiariki written by Patricia Grace and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Polynesian Society by :
Download or read book Memoirs of the Polynesian Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Journal of the Polynesian Society by : Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Author :Patricia Grace Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :1742539718 Total Pages :100 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Electric City written by Patricia Grace and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Oriori written by Robyn Kahukiwa and published by Becklyn Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems.
Author :Patricia Grace Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :1742288189 Total Pages :151 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Sky People written by Patricia Grace and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of Patricia Grace's stories we meet the sky people, those under the guardianship of Ranginui and Sky Parent, who are the unwanted, the dispossessed, the wounded in love. But shining through even the darkest human condition is the light to which sky people everywhere aspire. To love and in turn be loved; to create and to belong; even, perhaps, to fly. Also available as an eBook
Author :Patricia Grace Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :1743486871 Total Pages :238 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Chappy written by Patricia Grace and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Local Natures, Global Responsibilities by :
Download or read book Local Natures, Global Responsibilities written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the New Literatures in English, nature has long been a paramount issue: the environmental devastation caused by colonialism has left its legacy, with particularly disastrous consequences for the most vulnerable parts of the world. At the same time, social and cultural transformations have altered representations of nature in postcolonial cultures and literatures. It is this shift of emphasis towards the ecological that is addressed by this volume. A fast-expanding field, ecocriticism covers a wide range of theories and areas of interest, particularly the relationship between literature and other ‘texts’ and the environment. Rather than adopting a rigid agenda, the interpretations presented involve ecocritical perspectives that can be applied most fruitfully to literary and non-literary texts. Some are more general, ‘holistic’ approaches: literature and other cultural forms are a ‘living organism’, part of an intellectual ecosystem, implemented and sustained by the interactions between the natural world, both human and non-human, and its cultural representations. ‘Nature’ itself is a new interpretative category in line with other paradigms such as race, class, gender, and identity. A wide range of genres are covered, from novels or films in which nature features as the main topic or ‘protagonist’ to those with an ecocritical agenda, as in dystopian literature. Other concerns are: nature as a cultural construct; ‘gendered’ natures; and the city/country dichotomy. The texts treated challenge traditional Western dualisms (human/animal, man/nature, woman/man). While such global phenomena as media (‘old’ or ‘new’), tourism, and catastrophes permeate many of these texts, there is also a dual focus on nature as the inexplicable, elusive ‘Other’ and the need for human agency and global responsibility.
Author :Patricia Grace Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :0143775626 Total Pages :269 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (437 download)
Download or read book From the Centre written by Patricia Grace and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘We live by the sea, which hems and stitches the scalloped edges of the land.’ Renowned writer Patricia Grace begins her remarkable memoirs beside her beloved Hongoeka Bay. It is the place she has returned to throughout her life, and fought for, one of many battles she has faced: ‘It was when I first went to school that I found out that I was a Maori girl . . . I found that being different meant that I could be blamed . . .’ As she shows, her experiences — good and bad, joyous and insightful — have fuelled what became a focus of her life: ‘I had made up my mind that writing was something I would always do.’
Book Synopsis Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand by : New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives
Download or read book Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand written by New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monday's Warriors by : Maurice Shadbolt
Download or read book Monday's Warriors written by Maurice Shadbolt and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1992 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on fact, this tells of Kimball Bent, a Yankee who blundered into the British army in the mid-19th century, and was sent to fight in New Zealand. He deserted across battle lines to the Maori side in possibly the most ferocious colonial war ever fought.
Book Synopsis All I Asking for Is My Body by : Milton Murayama
Download or read book All I Asking for Is My Body written by Milton Murayama and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1988-05-31 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Afterword by Franklin S. Odo: The most important feature of Milton Murayama's brilliant All I Asking for Is My Body is the quality of the storytelling. It deserves thorough discussion and criticism among literary professionals and students. The work has a further genius, however, in its evocation of several major topics in modern Hawaiian history, specifically during the 1930s, the decade before United States involvement in World War II. I suggest that Murayama’s novel provides us with valuable insights into the worlds of language, sugar plantation history, and the second-generation Japanese Americans, the nisei. . . . Critic Rob Wilson noted: “Part of the accomplishment of the novel is that the language ranges from the vernacular to the literate and standard, and so reflects the cultural and linguistic diversity of Hawaii.” In the novel, Murayama uses standard English and pidgin. In real life, the narrator Kiyo explains, “we spoke four languages: good English in school, pidgin English among ourselves, good or pidgin Japanese to our parents and the other old folks.” The wonder is that Murayama emerged using any one of the languages well. For most, that experience proved to be an insuperable barrier to good creative writing. . . . All I Asking for Is My Body is the most compelling work done on the Hawaii nisei experience. Murayama understood his theme to be “the Japanese family system vs. individualism, the plantation system vs. individualism. And so the environments of the family and the plantation are inseparable from the theme.” Fortunately for us as readers, however, he understood that the story was the key ingredient; that anything less would simply add to the sociological study of the plantation and the Japanese family in Hawaii.
Book Synopsis Tu (Large Print 16pt) by : Patricia Grace
Download or read book Tu (Large Print 16pt) written by Patricia Grace and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Three brothers, a war and secrets. Some years later, a niece and nephew come looking for answers. It is time for revelations"--Publisher description.
