Once Were Warriors

Informationen zum Autor Alan Duff was born in 1950 and lives with his wife and four children in Havelock North, New Zealand. He has published six novels, most notably, the Once Were Warriors trilogy; a novella, State Ward ; and six works of non-fiction, including the controversial Maori: The Crisis and the Challenge . Once Were Warriors won the PEN Best First Book for Fiction Award and was made into an internationally acclaimed film for which Alan Duff wrote the original screenplay. Klappentext The Hekes are a family in turmoil. A tyrannical! alcoholic! violent patriarch! an alcoholic! ever-trying-to-reform mother! and three degenerate children. Can the draw Maori ritual and tradition pull them back from the brink? Zusammenfassung The Hekes are a family in turmoil. A tyrannical! alcoholic! violent patriarch! an alcoholic! ever-trying-to-reform mother! and three degenerate children. Can the draw Maori ritual and tradition pull them back from the brink?

Product details

• Authors: Alan Duff, Duff Alan
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.03.1995
• EAN: 9780099578413
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957841-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New Zealand, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, New Zealand / Aotearoa