Alan Duff

A Conversation with my Country (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Duff's new book A Conversation with My Country continues his nonfiction engagement with some of New Zealand's most divisive problems . . . Duff's examination of contemporary New Zealand is a personal one. It is the analysis of a man raised within a family that was itself a conflict zone, where race and culture battled in physical terms. His damaged mother was often the instigator of mass-brawls on the family front-lawn: "shrieking, panting, struggling, writhing". This autobiographical background forms the basis of Duff's examination. It is a rich perspective and his impassioned opinion provides the basis for constructive criticisms. A Conversation scrutinises contemporary parenting, education, welfare, and the prison system. With statistical and anecdotal back-up, Duff makes his case, often a damning one, against the worst of Pakeha and Maori society. . . . there is no doubt that A Conversation continues a necessary dialogue.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780143773276
• Artikelnr.: 61993641

Autorenporträt

Alan Duff was born in Rotorua in 1950. He has written novels, including Once Were Warriors, One Night Out Stealing and What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?, a novella (State Ward), several children's books and a number of non-fiction works. Once Were Warriors won the Pen Best First Book of Fiction Award and What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. Both novels were made into internationally acclaimed films. Duff was the driving force behind the Books in Homes scheme, which, with commercial sponsorship and government support, aims to break the cycle of illiteracy, poverty, anger and violence among underprivileged children by providing books for them to own. The New Zealand Listener claimed that Duff's debut, Once Were Warriors, 'bursts upon the literary landscape with all the noise and power of a new volcano', while acclaimed writer Witi Ihimaera wrote, 'This is the Haka, the rage of a people who, yes, once were warriors . . . A kick to the guts of New Zealand's much-vaunted pride in its Maori/Pakeha race relations. A breathless fearless debut.' The Sydney Morning Herald regarded the sequel, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?, as 'a masterpiece': 'powerful, authentic, moving, brilliantly written . . . a profound and passionate novel . . . a memorable experience'. The Australian praised its 'universal truths to be savoured for their poetic insight', while the Canberra Times called it 'a brilliant work . . . poetic and full of hope'. The New Zealand Listener wrote that What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? 'carries the story on with doubled brilliance. The new book is just as dynamic, just as in-your-face as the first one, but less violent, more layered, more fundamentally thoughtful and challenging.'