Potiki - Softcover

Grace, Patricia

3.88

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 070434081X ISBN 13: 9780704340817

Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd, 1987

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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 and rage threaten to burst beyond the confines of his twisted body. His all-seeing eye looks forward to a strange and terrible new dawn. Patrica Grace's second novel is a work of spellbinding power in which the myths of older times are inextricably woven into the political realities of today. Also available as an eBook

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What I enjoy most about the writing of Patricia Grace is the warmth of feeling, the depth, the aroha; the delight in the quirks of people and the poignancy; the sensitivity of the writing and the poetic quality of her descriptions.-- "Zealandia"

[Grace] is at her best portraying the lives of her characters, from their daily tasks (eel-fishing and cooking) to the stories they tell-both real hard-luck stories and ancestral myths.... The writing here is often elegant in its simplicity (the first-person sections in particular are beguilingly direct....) and the information about Maori life intriguing.-- "Publishers Weekly"

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Winner of the 1987 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction

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