Mutuwhenua - The Moon Sleeps (Wildfire Books) - Hardcover
Set in New Zealand, this novel centres on the difficulties faced by a 19-year-old Maori girl, Ripeka, when she falls in love with a Pakeha man. Can she be happy away from her family and culture? It is part of a series of contemporary women's writing, in schools editions.
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About the Author:
Patricia Grace has won many awards for her work, including the New Zealand Fiction Award for Potiki in 1987, and being longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001 with Dogside Story, which also won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize. Patricia lives in Plimmerton near Wellington on the ancestral land of Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa in close proximity to her home marae at Hongoeka Bay.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0521403987
- ISBN 13 9780521403986
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages175
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