| #547821 in Books | Univ of Hawaii Pr | 1995-03-01 | 1995-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.27 x.44 x5.51l,.49 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Highly recommend this for those interested in Maori storytelling|By Michelle Boyer|A really great story about Maori traditions, and the value of homeland (even when Pakeha are trying to offer you money so they can build a strip mall and a resort on your land). Uses various elements of storytelling, oral tradition, and magical realism to create a read that I couldn't put down.||From Publishers Weekly|Switching between first person and third person, this loose narrative of developers trying to build a resort on Maori land revolves around the family of Roimata Kararaina and her husband, Hemi Tamihana. Although land development is the cen
This compelling novel will resonate for people everywhere who find their livelihood threatened by "Dollarmen" -- property speculators advocating golf courses, high rises, shopping malls, and tourist attractions. In Potiki, one community's response to attacks on their ancestral values and symbols provides moving affirmation of the relationship between land and the people who live on it.
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Potiki (Talanoa: Contemporary Pacific Literature) | Patricia Grace. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
