- Title:
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Once Were Warriors
- Series:
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Once Were Warriors Trilogy #1
- Written by:
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Alan Duff
- Read by:
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Jay Laga'aia
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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10 hours 2 minutes
- Published:
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September 01 2013
- Available Date:
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September 01 2013
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781743178454
- Genres:
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Fiction; Cult Fiction; Family Sagas; General Fiction; New Zealand Fiction; Psychological Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Winner New Zealand PEN / Best First Book 1991
Duff (himself the son of a Maori mother and a white father) shows amazing facility with language in the intense, fast-paced, choppy internal monologues he gives his characters ... Duff shows courage in attacking the view that assimilation is the first step out of poverty, and he does so by spinning a compelling tale.
Kirkus Reviews
Alan Duff's first novel bursts upon the literary landscape with all the noise and power of a new volcano.
Witi Ihimaera
A confronting and gritty novel about displacement and heritage
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.
"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)