Patricia Grace: 22 books

1943, campagne d’Italie. Peu de temps après avoir quitté leurs terres ancestrales pour Wellington, la capitale néo-zélandaise, trois frères, pour des raisons différentes, s’engagent volontairement dans le 28e Bataillon maori, et se retrouvent sur le front durant la terrible bataille...

In a small coastal community threatened by developers who would ravage their lands it is a time of fear and confusion - and growing anger. The prophet child Tokowaru-i-te-Marama shares his people's struggles against bulldozers and fast money talk. When dramatic events menace the marae, his grief and...

There is conflict in the whanau. The young man Te Rua holds a secret for life, the one to die with . But he realises that if he is to acknowledge and claim his daughter, the secret will have to be told. The Sisters are threatening to drag the whanau through the courts. But why? What is really going...

This is the te reo Maori translation of the award-winning novel Tu. The only survivor of three young men who went to war from his family, Tu faces the past and tells his niece and nephew, through the pages of his war journal, about his brothers and their lives after moving to the city, the impact...

The Dream Sleepers - stories of family life in the country and the city, of the contrasts between young and old, of relationships between people who know what it means to be Maori in a society whose predominant values are alien. Also available as an eBook

These are short stories about ordinary folk leading seemingly ordinary lives. The power of community, extended family and culture are central to all. �

The revelations of a holocaust survivor, a suburban housewifes infatuation with her art teacher, a mothers angst at witnessing her sons independence, a series of phone conversations that reveal the essence of friendship. Culled from their collected manuscripts over the last fifteen years, the Elkins...

La société médiévale apparaît souvent comme une société d’affrontement, distinguant le clerc du laïc, le supérieur de l’inférieur, le croyant de l’incroyant, le courtois du vilain, mais aussi le beau du laid. La littérature narrative des xiième et xiiième siècles n’échappe pas...