This compelling novel will resonate for people everywhere who find their livelihood threatened by Dollarmen -- property speculators advocating golf courses, high rises, shopping malls, and tourist attractions. In Potiki, one community's response to attacks on their ancestral values and symbols provides moving affirmation of the relationship between land and the people who live on it.
This compelling novel will resonate for people everywhere who find their livelihood threatened by Dollarmen -- property speculators advocating golf co...
Mata, Makareta, and Missy, three Maori cousins, once shared a magical childhood moment. They have since followed separate and very different paths, yet their struggles offer insightful glimpses into the lives of contemporary New Zealand women. Patricia Grace's keen eye records the psychological, cultural, and political circumstances that color and circumscribe their worlds in this engaging, compassionate story.
Mata, Makareta, and Missy, three Maori cousins, once shared a magical childhood moment. They have since followed separate and very different paths, ye...
Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible for others to share. In fact his whole whanau is bonded by secrets, a genealogy stitched together by shame, joy, love and sometimes grief.
Patricia Grace's major new novel merges recent headlines with stories of a heartfelt family history. It is an account of the mysteries that operate at many levels between generations, where the present is the pivot, the center of the spiral, looking outward to the past and future that define it.
Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible for others to share. In fact his whole whanau is bonded by secrets, a g...
There is conflict in the whanau. The young man, Te Rua, holds a secret for life, the one to die with. But he realizes 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. But why? What is really going on?
Meanwhile, wider events are encroaching. To this East Coast site visitors will arrive in numbers, wanting to be among the first in the world to see the new millennium sunrise. There are plans to be put into action, there's money to be made, and there's high drama as the...
There is conflict in the whanau. The young man, Te Rua, holds a secret for life, the one to die with. But he realizes that if he is to acknowledge ...
Der alte Maori-Holzschnitzer konnte sein größtes Lebenswerk, das Versammlungshaus mit den Ahnenfiguren, nicht vollenden; der letzte Pfosten blieb leer. Und Toko, das Kind mit den hellseherischen Kräften, empfängt eines Tages bedrohliche Visionen von der Zukunft seines Dorfes. So kommt Unruhe in den Kreislauf von Mensch und Natur, Tag und Nacht, Leben und Tod in der Maori-Siedlung an der Küste Neuseelands. Der »Dollarmann« taucht auf: Ein moderner Freizeitpark an der Küste verheißt Fortschritt und Einkommen. Die Dorfgemeinschaft versucht den Bulldozern und der Verlockung des großen...
Der alte Maori-Holzschnitzer konnte sein größtes Lebenswerk, das Versammlungshaus mit den Ahnenfiguren, nicht vollenden; der letzte Pfosten blieb le...
Ng?ti Toa chief Te Rauparaha is pursued by his enemies and fears for his life. At Lake Rotoaira, he is hidden in a k?mara pit, and Te Rangikoaea, a woman of great power, sits in front of its entrance. As he hears his enemies, Te Rauparaha whispers in the dark "Will I die?' Will I live?", but his enemies cannot find him, and he climbs back to the sunlight.
Ng?ti Toa chief Te Rauparaha is pursued by his enemies and fears for his life. At Lake Rotoaira, he is hidden in a k?mara pit, and Te Rangikoaea, a wo...
