Patricia Grace: 22 books

A literary milestone: Patricia Grace's first novel in ten years. Uprooted from his privileged European life and sent to New Zealand to sort himself out, twenty-one-year-old Daniel pieces together the history of his Maori family. As his relatives revisit their past, Daniel learns of a remarkable love...

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.

Les nouvelles de ce recueil mettent en scène des personnages qui font face à la solitude et au silence. Patricia Grace y commente indirectement les conséquences de l’urbanisation en Nouvelle-Zélande, l’isolement de jeunes et de moins jeunes, dans la ville comme à la campane. Ici, les...

This is a fine new collection of short stories by the much-loved Patricia Grace, probably never more popular since the great commercial success of the novel Tu.The feast of stories is varied: urban, rural, New Zealand, overseas, tribal, contemporary.An elderly woman, whose husband has died, gathers...

In this collection of Patricia Grace's stories we meet the sky people, those under the guardianship of Ranginui and Sky Parent, who are the unwanted, the dispossessed, the wounded in love. But shining through even the darkest human condition is the light to which sky people everywhere aspire. To love and in turn be loved; to create and to belong; even, perhaps, to fly.

Do you hear the people calling?' 'No.' 'See there, dummy, you're nowhere near dead.' 'Well, I don't believe you. How would you know?' 'Of course I know, I do, I do, I know all about it . . .' Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible for others to share. In fact his...

This is the story of Ripeka, who leaves her extended family and its traditional lifestyle to marry Graeme, a Pakeha schoolteacher. In the strange world of the city, Ripeka discovers that she cannot make the break with her whanau and that the old ways are too strong. Patricia Grace s first novel is...

One of Patricia Grace's most popular novels. Makareta is the chosen one - carrying her families hopes. Missy is the observer - the one who accepts but has her dreams. Mata is always waiting - for life to happen as it stealthily passes by. These three women are the cousins. Moving from the forties...

L'amour qui unit une jeune Mäorie, Linda, et un Päkehä (Néo-Zélandais d’origine européenne), Graeme, se heurte pourtant à des différences culturelles jusque-là insoupçonnées. Cette jeune femme qui depuis toujours se voulait «différente» et «moderne» se sentira en effet de plus en...

À la veille du nouveau millénaire, une petite communauté maorie de la côte ouest de la Nouvelle-Zélande cherche à tirer profit du premier lever du soleil de l’an 2000. Comment attirer les touristes, comment travailler ensemble pour cet événement exceptionnel et riche de possibilités ? En...

Patricia Grace's popular first collection - sensitive stories of Maori life which explore Maori spirituality and values and pursue relationships between people, family and races. Also available as an eBook

A TRUE STORY OF LOVE IN WARTIME AND IN PEACE. In Crete during the Second World War a wounded Maori Battalion soldier and a young Cretan woman fall in love when the young infantryman is sheltered by her family. After marrying in Crete, Ned and Katina come back to live in New Zealand, settling in the...

Dans un accident de voiture, un bébé meurt. Lorsque son corps perdu est enfin retrouvé dans une poubelle à l’hôpital, il est sans yeux. Pour les deux familles réunies afin de soutenir la mere, Te Paania, et de faire le deuil du père, Shane et du bébé, cet incident choquant et mystérieux...

Ce recueil de 13 nouvelles révèle la diversité et la richesse du talent de Patricia Grace, qui réussit ici à mélanger une certaine oralité traditionnelle aux formes littéraires classiques, dans une prose narrative où jouent constamment et subtilement intonations et tournures maori. Si le...