Uncle's Story, The

Uncle's Story, The
Witi Ihimaera
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Paperback
h199 x 130mm - 384pg
5 Nov 2003 NZ
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9780143018988
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In the 1990s young Michael Mahana's aunt hands him the diary of his uncle Sam Mahana, who served with the New Zealand forces in the Vietnam War. The diary contains the astonishing revelation that during the war the young Sam Mahana had a love affair with an American helicopter pilot named Cliff Harper. This section of the novel contains gripping descriptions of scenes from the Vietnam conflict. After the war Cliff Harper came to New Zealand to visit Sam. Now, in the 1990s, armed with his uncle's diary, Michael Mahana goes searching for his uncle's former lover in the United States. Along the way he makes discoveries about his own relationships. Witi Ihimaera's powerful new novel explores Maori attitudes to sexuality and masculinity and contains some of his most engaging writing so far. But first and foremost it is a powerful love story which demands our attention as it slowly unfolds.
Three-time winner of the Wattie/Montana Book of the Year award, Katherine Mansfield fellow, and playwright, Witi Ihimaera is one of New Zealand's most accomplished writers. Bulibasha, King of the Gypsies won the Montana Book of the Year award in 1995. Ihimaera won the Wattie Book of the Year Award in 1974 and 1986 for Tangi and The Matriarch respectively. His other fiction titles include The Dream Swimmer (sequel to the award-winning The Matriarch); Pounamu, Pounamu; Whanau; The New Net Goes Fishing; The Whale Rider; Dear Miss Mansfield; Kingfisher Come Home; and Nights In The Gardens of Spain. Ihimaera has also edited a major five-volume collection of new Maori fiction and non-fiction, called the Te Aro Marama series. In 1993 Witi Ihimaera spent a year in France on the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship. It is Witi Ihimaera's writing that also opened the door to his political career. When the then US Ambassador to New Zealand read a copy of Pounamu, Pounamu he passed it on to the Prime Minister of New Zealand at the time, Norman Kirk. At Mr Kirk's request, Witi Ihimaera joined the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and served as a diplomat in Canberra, New York and Washington. He is a respected commentator on Maori, Pacific and indigenous peoples' affairs, and has been
Status: Print on Demand
ISBN-13: 9780143018988
Published: 5 Nov 2003
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)
Publisher: Penguin Group NZ
Format: Paperback
Height: 199mm
Width: 130mm
Pages: 384

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