$32.00
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
3 May 2021
Summary
From the Centre: A Memoir of Family, Land, and Literary Awakening
With cherished photographs and poignant quotes from her celebrated works, Patricia Grace embarks on a deeply personal journey, beginning with her grandparents and parents and extending through her formative years, marriage, and into the present day. This touching and self-effacing memoir unveils the life of a writer, a Māori woman, and a teacher.
It is a testament to the enduring love for family and ancestral …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143775614 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143775618 |
| Author: | Patricia Grace |
| Publisher: | Penguin NZ |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 494g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 145mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Patricia Grace
Patricia Grace is one of New Zealand’s most celebrated writers. She has published seven novels and seven short-story collections, as well as a number of books for children and works of non-fiction. 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.
Novels: Mutuwhenua- The Moon Sleeps, Potiki, Cousins, Baby No-eyes, Dogside Story, Tu, Chappy.
Short story collections: Waiariki, The Dream Sleepers and Other Stories, Electric City and Other Stories, Selected Stories, Collected Stories, The Sky People, Small Holes in the Silence.
Books for children: The Kuia and the Spider/Te Kuia me te Pungawerewere, Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street/Te Tuna Watakirihi me Nga Tamariki o te Tiriti o Toa, The Trolley, Areta and the Kahawai, Maraea and the Albatrosses, Haka/Whiti te Ra!
Non-fiction: Wahine Toa, Ned & Katina- a True Love Story.
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