Baby No-Eyes

Baby No-Eyes
Patricia Grace
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NZ$ 30.00
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NZ$ 24.00
Paperback
h198 x 128mm - 300pg
28 Oct 2008 NZ
International import eta 7-19 days
9780143011613
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A re-issue of Patricia Grace's fourth novel in the new cover series design. Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is a impossible for others to share. In fact his whole family is bonded by secrets, their genealogy stitch together by pride, shame and sometimes despair. Baby No-eyes has several threads running through it. One is the death of Te Paania's child, which is based on the true story of a dead child who was returned to her whanau with her eyes missing. In the years after her death, Baby has a continuing presence throughout the novel. The second thread involves an iwi group, who are involved in a land claim that results in them occupying a downtown council site. The ghost of Baby No-eyes accompanies Gran Kura, Te Paania and Tawera, as Te Paania immerses herself in political issues and Tawera becomes a teenager, and as Gran reaches the end of her life.
Patricia Grace is the author of five novels, four short story collections and several children's books. She has won many awards for her work, including the New Zealand Fiction Award for Potiki in 1987, and being longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001 with Dogside Story, which also won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize. Patricia lives in Plimmerton near Wellington on the ancestral land of Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa in close proximity to her home marae at Hongoeka Bay.

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