Collected Stories

by Patricia Grace

The collected edition of Patricia Grace's stories brings together all the work contained in her first three books of short stories. It is one of the finest collections of stories by any New Zealand writer.

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

263 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

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

[Cat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wide variety of stories, povs, and characters. Some are more ambiguous than others, but all are a snapshot of kiwi life (mostly rural, often seaside) and very often specifically māori family life.

[Leyre Sanmartín · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good portrayal of the importance of the transformation of the land with a Māori perspective.

[Kelly Lynn Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for my NZ Lit class. I feel like I say this a lot about short story collections, but this book was of uneven quality. Some of the stories made my jaw drop open at how brilliant they were, and others made me scratch my head. Part of the head scratching could be because of the cultural language barrier (the stories being set in Maori New Zealand, me being a white American living in America).

[Mariana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Patricia Grace writes awesome short stories about ordinary Maoris.

[Amber · Rating 1 out of 5]

(Rating only for 'Journey')

[Holly · Rating 1 out of 5]

Rating for 'Journey' only. Read for AS Level English Literature.
This was terrible.