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Mutuwhenua
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Mutuwhenua
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Patricia Grace
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:156 | Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 131 |
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Category/Genre | Anthologies Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780143019329
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Classifications | Dewey:823.2 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Penguin Group (NZ)
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Imprint |
Penguin Books (NZ)
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Publication Date |
4 May 2004 |
Publication Country |
New Zealand
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Description
This 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 with her whanau and that the old ways are too strong. Patricia Grace s first novel is a powerful, moving story of contrasts - between light and darkness, old and new, young and old, and Maori and Pakeha. Also available as an eBook
Author Biography
Patricia Grace is one of New Zealand's most celebrated writers. She has published over 35 titles, including novels, short-story collections, works of non-fiction and books for children, a number of which have been translated into te reo Maori. Among numerous awards, she won the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards in 1986 for the much-loved Potiki, which also won the New Zealand Fiction Award in 1987. She was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001 with Dogside Story, which won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize. Tu won the 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Fiction Prize and the Deutz Medal for Fiction and Poetry. Her children's story The Kuia and the Spider won the Children's Picture Book of the Year and she has also won the New Zealand Book Awards For Children and Young Adults Te Kura Pounamu Award. Patricia was born in Wellington and lives in Plimmerton on ancestral land, in close proximity to her home marae at Hongoeka Bay.
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