$30.39
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2024
Summary
The Mires: A Novel of Belonging, Ecology, and the Monsters We Create
A tender and fierce novel that asks what we do when faced with things we don’t understand. Is our impulse to destroy or connect?
Water will come and you think it will be soft. You think it will be smooth and find its way around your things: your houses and cars and furniture, your gardens and windows and hope. But water can be the foot of an elephant, the horns of a moose, a herd of buffalo running from a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761153693 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761153692 |
| Author: | Tina Makereti |
| Publisher: | Ultimo Press |
| Imprint: | Ultimo Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 354g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 235mm x 156mm |
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Critics Review
‘The Mires has a modest flourish of magical realism, but it’s the unflinching attention to reality that grabs you. Makereti has a gift for portraying immense social problems through the human dimensions of domestic life.’ * The Age *‘The Mires is a work of art. The impacts of colonisation, movement, and climate change cut to the bone in glittering prose and through characters kept close as neighbours. In The Mires, the environment speaks, culture transcends boundaries and the myriad ideas of home are bitterly defended. Only Tina Makereti could hold a reader in such tense tenderness.’ * Laura Jean McKay *
‘a masterclass in social realism with just a touch of magic … The Mires grips the reader’s attention and holds it right to the end’
* Books+Publishing *‘specific and textured: Makereti is strong on both domestic spaces and the natural world’
* NZ Listener *‘A generous, openhearted novel which explores suburban love, hate, migration, climate change, prejudice, motherhood and the dangers lurking beneath the surface of New Zealand society … effortlessly put together’
* Waiheke Weekender * ‘As both a writer and a refugee, this book resonates with my experiences, skilfully addressing the link between refugee lives, colonialism and climate change.’ * Behrouz Boochani *‘Gripping and masterful, wise and compassionate, The Mires is rich with insight into contemporary Aotearoa, its past and its potential futures.’ * The Post *‘It’s such a joy to read a novel that’s rich in ideas, themes and metaphor while being completely revelatory of people’s lives and the things, the voices and the knowledge, good, bad or indifferent that they carry in their hearts.’ * The Newsroom *‘The Mires clearly speaks to how connection and understanding can be a powerful force for change; in recognising the things that bind us, represented by the powerful, watery flow underpinning the book, we are forced to see just how intimately connected we all are.’ * The Spinoff *‘a homage to the resilience of the human spirit and the importance of community’ * NZ Booklovers *‘Makereti gives us a story of tension and tenderness, of magic and meaning, steeped in grace, and timeless wisdom.’ * Kete Books *About The Author
Tina Makereti
Tina Makereti is a New Zealander of Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore and Pākehā descent. Her novels include The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke and Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings. In 2016 her short story ‘Black Milk’ won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Pacific region. She also co-edited Black Marks on the White Page, an anthology that celebrates Māori and Pasifika writing, with Witi Ihimaera. Her novels, essays and short stories have won recognition in Aotearoa, and she has been the recipient of several writers residencies and awards. Tina teaches creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. She wrote The Mires while living on the Kāpiti Coast of Aotearoa New Zealand.
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