Once Were Warriors (Talanoa) - Softcover

Tandem Press Birkenhead

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0824815939 ISBN 13: 9780824815936

Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, 1994

Synopsis

Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live. Conveying both the rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left by its absence, Once Were Warriors is a masterpiece of unblinking realism, irresistible energy, and great sorrow.

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Review:

" A searing look at the urban subculture of New Zealand's native people." -- Toronto Globe and Mail
" A starkly realistic account...as important, as frank, as powerful a book as [Alice Walker's The Color Purple] was for Americans."
Dominion (New Zealand)

"A searing look at the urban subculture of New Zealand's native people." -- Toronto Globe and Mail

"A starkly realistic account...as important, as frank, as powerful a book as [Alice Walker's The Color Purple] was for Americans."

Dominion (New Zealand)

Book Description:

An astonishing, moving portrait of a Maori family in total crisis

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0824815939
• ISBN 13: 9780824815936
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192