Alan Duff

Broschiertes Buch

Once Were Warriors

Beschreibung

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?

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 546714
• 1995.
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 150g
• ISBN-13: 9780099578413
• ISBN-10: 0099578417
• Artikelnr.: 21498321

Rezensionen

A searing look at the urban subculture of New Zealand's native people Toronto Globe and Mail