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'Provocative, compassionate and beautiful' - Joy Harjo, US Poet LaureateWINNER OF THE 1987 NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARD; WINNER OF THE 2008 NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATUREA moving story of a Maori community's fight for survival, from one of New Zealand's most...
A literary milestone: Patricia Grace's first novel in ten years. 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,...
The Dream Sleepers - stories of family life in the country and the city, of the contrasts between young and old, of relationships between people who know what it means to be Maori in a society whose predominant values are alien.
These are short stories about ordinary folk leading seemingly ordinary lives. The power of community, extended family and culture are central to all.
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.
Makareta is the chosen one - carrying her families hopes. Missy is the observer - the one who accepts but has her dreams. Mata is always waiting - for life to happen as it stealthily passes by. These three women are the cousins of one of Patricia Grace's most popular...
A TRUE STORY OF LOVE IN WARTIME AND IN PEACE. In Crete during the Second World War a wounded Maori Battalion soldier and a young Cretan woman fall in love when the young infantryman is sheltered by her family. After marrying in Crete, Ned and Katina come back to live in...
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.An elderly woman,...
Tu is proud of his name the Maori god of war. But for the returned soldier there's a shadow over his own war experience with the Maori Battalion in Italy. Three young men from the one family went to war, but only one returned Tu is the sole survivor. Now, when his...
This is the story of Ripeka, who leaves her extended family and its traditional lifestyle to marry Graeme, a Pakeha schoolteacher. In the strange world of the city, Ripeka discovers that she cannot make the break with her whanau and that the old ways are too strong....
Do you hear the people calling?' 'No.' 'See there, dummy, you're nowhere near dead.' 'Well, I don't believe you. How would you know?' 'Of course I know, I do, I do, I know all about it . . .' Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible...
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....
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...
The collected edition of Patricia Grace's stories brings together all the work contained in her first three books of short stories. It is one of the finest collections of stories by any New Zealand writer.
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...
Makareta est l’élue, celle sur qui la communauté fixe tous ses espoirs. Missy est l’observatrice, celle qui accepte sa place mais qui continue à avoir des rêves. Mata est la délaissée, celle qui regarde couler sa vie avec abnégation.Toutes les trois partagent le...
Patricia Grace, pionnière de la littérature néo-zélandaise, nous offre avec Potiki un roman choral enchanteur, où les mythes des temps anciens se tressent inextricablement aux réalités du présent. Ce roman, récompensé de plusieurs prix à l’internationale, brosse avec...
A la fois épopée familiale et document sociohistorique, Chappy retrace lhistoire des membres dune famille maorie au siècle dernier. Leurs récits de vie se répondent et révèlent ce qui jusque-là ne lavait pas été par pudeur ou culpabilité, autant quils dessinent un...
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