This novel was the winner of the 1987 New Zealand Fiction Award
Patricia Grace is the first Maori woman to publish a collection of short stories (1975). Since then she has published three other short story collections, three award-winning novels, and several children's books. Her novel Dogside Story (UH Press edition, 2002) won the 2001 Kiriyama Prize for fiction. She is widely anthologized and translated into more than eight languages, and is considered not only one of the finest writers in New Zealand and the Pacific, but one of the most important writers of the post-colonial novel in English in the world today.
[Grace] is at her best portraying the lives of her characters, from
their daily tasks (eel-fishing and cooking) to the stories they
tell-both real hard-luck stories and ancestral myths.... The
writing here is often elegant in its simplicity (the first-person
sections in particular are beguilingly direct....) and the
information about Maori life intriguing.-- "Publishers Weekly"
What I enjoy most about the writing of Patricia Grace is the warmth
of feeling, the depth, the aroha; the delight in the quirks of
people and the poignancy; the sensitivity of the writing and the
poetic quality of her descriptions.-- "Zealandia"
[Grace] is at her best portraying the lives of her characters, from
their daily tasks (eel-fishing and cooking) to the stories they
tell-both real hard-luck stories and ancestral myths.... The
writing here is often elegant in its simplicity (the first-person
sections in particular are beguilingly direct....) and the
information about Maori life intriguing.-- "Publishers
Weekly"
What I enjoy most about the writing of Patricia Grace is the warmth
of feeling, the depth, the aroha; the delight in the quirks of
people and the poignancy; the sensitivity of the writing and the
poetic quality of her descriptions.-- "Zealandia"
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