Potiki
$29.75
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2026
Summary
A small coastal community is threatened by developers. It is a time of fear and confusion - and growing anger. The prophet child Toko can sense it. He shares his people’s struggles against bulldozers and fast money talk: his all-seeing eye looks forward to a strange and terrible new dawn.
Weaving myth and memory, Patricia Grace’s prize-winning novel is a spellbinding portrait of a defiant community determined to protect their way of life at any cost.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776951536 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776951530 |
| Author: | Patricia Grace |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group (NZ) |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 1mm x 1mm x 1mm |
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Patricia Grace
Patricia Grace is one of New Zealand’s most celebrated Māori fiction authors and a figurehead of modern New Zealand literature. She garnered initial acclaim in the 1970s with her collection of short stories entitled Waiariki (1975) - the first published book by a Māori woman in New Zealand.
She has published six novels and seven short story collections, as well as a number of books for children and a work of non-fiction.
Awards and Recognition:
- Potiki won the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction in 1987.
- Dogside Story was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2001 and won the 2001 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize.
- Her children’s story The Kuia and the Spider won the New Zealand Picture Book of the Year in 1982.
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