Lord Of The Wings (extract from forthcoming novel ) One day Karuhiruhi, chieftain of the large black seashag iwi, decided to leave his cliff-faced pah and travel throughout his coastal kingdom. His wife, Queen Kara, had just given birth…
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Wrestling with the Patriarch, Otto Heim
The Uncle’s Story Witi Ihimaera Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0140298924 Witi Ihimaera’s eighth novel impressively rounds off his third decade in the market for fiction. Faithful readers will no doubt spot many echoes of earlier Ihimaeras in this latest work.…
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Tagged with: Issue 47, March 2001, Otto Heim, Penguin, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The never-ending journey, Charles Royal
Growing Up Maori ed Witi Ihimaera Tandem Press, $29.95, ISBN 1 877178 16 0 Growing Up Maori contains the reminiscences, memories, passions and pains of some 36 Maori people as they passed through their youthful years. The group includes academics, poets,…
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Tagged with: Issue 37, Tandem Press, Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Lord of the Rings in Waituhi? James Ritchie
Pure Broadway, Roger Robinson
Nights in the Gardens of Spain Witi Ihimaera, Secker & Warburg, $34.95 On the way home years ago after seeing Waituhi (the Witi Ihimaera/ Ross Harris opera), I remember remarking that Witi could someday write the book for a great…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1995, Issue 17, Roger Robinson, Secker & Warburg, Winter 1995, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
History, challenge and succession, Chris Prentice
Bulibasha, King of the Gypsies Witi Ihimaera Penguin, $29.95 Witi Ihimaera’s writing has always been concerned in some way with the problem of history, this concern reaching its most urgent and dramatic consideration in the 1986 novel, The Matriarch. With…
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Tagged with: Chris Prentice, Issue 15, Penguin Books, Spring 1994, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
15 writers: ‘You must read this’
Tell us about the book you want to give everyone for Christmas and/or the book you hope no one gives you for Christmas, we asked twenty-four of our top writers and critics. Fifteen of them dared to respond. Jenny…
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Tagged with: Brian Boyd, Charles Croot, David Eggleton, Fiona Kidman, Geoff Chapple, Issue 7, Jenny Bornholdt, Joy Cowley, Kevin Ireland, Michael King, Owen Marshall, Peter Wells, Shonagh Koea, Stephanie Johnson, Summer 1992, Tessa Duder, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Opinion
Posted in Opinion