Potiki

by Patricia Grace

Paperback

About the author

Patricia Grace is a major New Zealand novelist, short story writer and children’s writer, of Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa descent, and is affiliated to Ngati Porou by marriage. Grace began writing early, while teaching and raising her family of seven children, and has since won many national and international awards, including the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for fiction, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, widely considered the most prestigious literary prize after the Nobel. A deeply subtle, moving and subversive writer, in 2007 Grace received a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to literature.

Reviews

[Raphaela]

"Considering the academic literature you’ve used to engage with the de/postcolonial elements of the novel, (...)
I was quite surprised how little interest some of your group seemed to take in
the novel (...)In general, you do not have to like novels you have to read for class, but we ask that you engage with them, think through them, and as such, make your dislike a part of your informed analysis."