Contemporary fiction books set in New Zealand (5)
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The Bone People by Keri Hulme EN
Country: Oceania / 
New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
Integrating both Maori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage. Kerewin Holmes is a painter and a loner, convinced that "to care for anything is to invite disaster." Her isolation is disrupted one day when a six-year-old mute boy, Simon, breaks into her house. The sole survivor of a mysterious shipwreck, Simon... continue
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Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens’s classic Great Expectations. So begins this rare, original story about the abiding ... continue
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The Parihaka Woman by Witi Ihimaera EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
A wonderfully surprising, inventive and deeply moving riff on fact and fiction, history and imagination from one of New Zealand's finest and most memorable storytellers. There has never been a New Zealand novel quite like The Parihaka Woman. Richly imaginative and original, weaving together fact and fiction, it sets the remarkable story of Erenora against the historical background of the turbulent and compelling events that occurred in Parihaka during the 1870s and 1880s. Parihaka is the place Erenora calls home, a peaceful Taranaki settlement overcome by war and land confiscation. As her worl... continue
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El mar alrededor by Keri Hulme ES
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
En la solitaria torre junto a la costa neozelandesa en la que vive recluida Kerewin Holmes, una artista de ascendencia europea y maorí, irrumpe durante una tormenta Simon, un niño de apariencia salvaje, mudo y rubio como el sol. A la mañana siguiente llegará para recogerlo su padrastro, Joe, un operario de fábrica maorí. Entre el magnético niño, el extrañamente tierno padrastro y la hosca Kerewin pronto nacerá un vínculo singular que, progresivamente, los llevará a adentrarse en el enigma de sus pasados
5.
The Hop : A Novel by Diana Clarke EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
Sex worker Kate Burns heads to Nevada where she lands a job at America's largest and most successful brothel, "The Hop," but when ten street workers are killed in a nearby city, Kate begins to see things differently as success breeds scandal and unwanted fame.