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Potiki (Penguin Modern Classics)
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'Provocative, compassionate and beautiful' - Joy Harjo, US Poet Laureate
A moving story of a Maori community's fight for survival, from one of New Zealand's most prominent and celebrated authors
On the remote coast of New Zealand, at the curve that binds the land andthe sea, a small Maori community live, work, fish, play and tellstories of their ancestors. But something is changing. The prophet child toko can sense it. Men are coming, with dollars and big plans to develop the area for tourism. As their ancestral land becomes threatened, the people must unite in a battle for survival.
Weaving together myth and memory, Patricia Grace's prize-winning novel is aspellbinding portrait of a defiant community determined to protect their way of life at any cost.
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A moving story of a Maori community's fight for survival, from one of New Zealand's most prominent and celebrated authors
On the remote coast of New Zealand, at the curve that binds the land andthe sea, a small Maori community live, work, fish, play and tellstories of their ancestors. But something is changing. The prophet child toko can sense it. Men are coming, with dollars and big plans to develop the area for tourism. As their ancestral land becomes threatened, the people must unite in a battle for survival.
Weaving together myth and memory, Patricia Grace's prize-winning novel is aspellbinding portrait of a defiant community determined to protect their way of life at any cost.
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A searching examination of human nature [by] a canonical figure in postcolonial and Maori literature . . . a timely arrival, praising the strength and the resilience of the human spirit whilst capturing, in moments of crystallising clarity, the tragic masochism of its pain and sorrow.| Title | Potiki (Penguin Modern Classics) |
| By (author) | Patricia Grace |
| Publishers | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Language of text | English |
| ISBN | 9780241413555 |
| Product Form | Paperback |
| Height | 198 mm |
| Width | 129 mm |
| Thickness | 11 mm |
| Unit weight | 145 gr |
