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Bird Child and Other Stories by Patricia Grace
Category: Fiction
Mythology and contemporary Māori life are woven together seamlessly in this spectacular collection by Aotearoa’s foremost short story writer. The titular story ‘Bird Child’ plunges you deep into Te Kore, an ancient time before time. In another, the formidable goddess Mahuika, Keeper of Fire, becomes a d ...Show more
Cousins by Patricia Grace
Category: Fiction
Now a feature film, this is the unforgettable story of three women's intersecting lives. Makareta is the chosen one - carrying her family's 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. Moving from the forti ...Show more
Cousins by Patricia Grace
Category: Fiction
A reprint of one of Patricia Grace's best-loved novels about three girls and what happens as they grow up. Cousins is a stunning novel of tradition and change, of the whanau and its struggle to survive, of the place of women in a changing world. It is an engrossing story that runs on in the head long af ...Show more
From the Centre - A Writer's Life by Patricia Grace
Category: Biography
'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 we ...Show more
Mutuwhenua (Popular Penguin) by Patricia Grace
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Mutuwhenua 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 from her whanau, that the old ways are too strong. The first novel by a Maori woman e ...Show more
Potiki by Patricia Grace
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Destroy the land and sea, we destroy ourselves' On the East Coast of New Zealand, at the curve that binds land and 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 bi ...Show more
Potiki by Patricia Grace
Category: Fiction
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 rag ...Show more
Potiki (Penguin Award Winning Classics) by Patricia Grace
Category: Fiction
"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 pr ...Show more
Potiki (Popular Penguin) by Patricia Grace
Category: Fiction
A Māori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purchase the community property, move the community meeting hall, and construct many new buildings, including an "underwater zoo." The story is told in several chapters that switch narrators. Sometimes, it is ...Show more
Potiki (Popular Penguin) by Patricia Grace
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
In a small coastal community threatened by developers it is a time of fear and confusion - and growing anger as the people begin to respond. 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 r ...Show more
Small Holes in the Silence by Patricia Grace
Category: Fiction
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, whose husband has died, gathers fi ...Show more
Te Kuia me te Pungawerewere/The Kuia and the Spider by Patricia Grace
Category: Languages and Reference
Who's the best at weaving, the kuia or the spider? They decide to ask their grandchildren . . . Patricia Grace and Robyn Kahukiwa's 1981 classic story The Kuia and the Spider returns in a dual reo Maori and English text, with Hirini Melbourne's original translation. A bilingual Maori and English editi ...Show more