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Author Grace, Patricia, 1937-

Title Potiki / Patricia Grace
Published Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 1986

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 MELB  828.02 G7296 A6/P  AVAILABLE
Description 185 pages ; 20 cm
Summary In a small coastal community threatened by developers who would ravage their lands it is a time of fear and confusion - and growing anger. The prophet child Tokowaru-i-te-Marama shares his people's struggles against bulldozers and fast money talk. When dramatic events menace the marae, his grief and rage threaten to burst beyond the confines of his twisted body. His all-seeing eye looks forward to a strange and terrible new dawn
Notes Novel
Reprinted 2001
Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award 1986. 3rd equal prize
New Zealand Book Awards Fiction 1987
Subject Maori (New Zealand people) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Novels.
LC no. 86221935
ISBN 0140088032 (paperback)