by Makereti Tina (Author)
Exhibited as a curiosity, a Maori boy turns his gaze on Victorian London.
Author Biography
Tina Makereti's first collection of stories, Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa, won the inaugural Fiction Award at Nga Kupu Ora, the Maori Book Awards, in 2011. Her debut novel, Where the Rekohu Bone Sings, won the same award in 2014, and was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. In 2016 she won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Pacific Region) for her story "Black Milk." Her second novel, The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke, was first published in New Zealand in 2018 and was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. She has a PhD in creative writing and teaches at Massey University in New Zealand.
Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.8 x 5 IN
Publication Date: July 19, 2019