Once Were Warriors
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Description
The Hekes are a family in turmoil. A tyrannical, alcoholic, violent patriarch, an alcoholic, ever-trying-to-reform mother, and three degenerate children. Can the draw Maori ritual and tradition pull them back from the brink?
Additional information
| Weight | 0.157 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099578417 |
| About The Author | Alan Duff was born in 1950 and lives with his wife and four children in Havelock North, New Zealand. He has published six novels, most notably, the Once Were Warriors trilogy; a novella, State Ward; and six works of non-fiction, including the controversial Maori: The Crisis and the Challenge. Once Were Warriors won the PEN Best First Book for Fiction Award and was made into an internationally acclaimed film for which Alan Duff wrote the original screenplay. |
A searing look at the urban subculture of New Zealand's native people | |
| Other text | A starkly realistic account…as important, as frank, as powerful a book as [Alice Walker's The Color Purple] was for Americans |
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