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Once Were Warriors Paperback - 1995

by Alan Duff

Already a smash motion picture from Fine Line Features in New Zealand, this raw and deeply affecting story has also garnered major literary awards abroad. A contemporary story about an urban family in New Zealand, the book combines the action and mood of Blade Runner with the triumph of A Raisin in the Sun.


From the jacket flap

Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live. Conveying both the rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left by its absence, Once Were Warriors is a masterpiece of unblinking realism, irresistible energy, and great sorrow.

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  • Title Once Were Warriors
  • Author Alan Duff
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York
  • Date 1995-02-28
  • ISBN 9780679761815 / 0679761810
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.09 x 5.15 x 0.56 in (20.55 x 13.08 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Oceania
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Maori (New Zealand people)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94040298
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

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

"A starkly realistic account...as important, as frank, as powerful a book as [Alice Walker's The Color Purple] was for Americans."

Dominion (New Zealand)

Citations

  • Library Journal, 04/15/1995, Page 120

About the author

Alan Duff was born in 1950 and lives with his wife and four children in Havelock North, New Zealand. He has published the novels Once Were Warriors and One Night Out Stealing; a novella, State Ward; and a work of nonfiction, Maori: The Crisis and the Challenge. His novel Once Were Warriors won the PEN Best First Book for Fiction Award and was made into an internationally acclaimed film, for which Duff wrote the original screenplay.
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