Read Around Oceania Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Oceania.
Best books from Oceania (281)
211.
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
212.
Hollowpox : The Hunt for Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
"Morrigan Crow must uncover the mystery behind a new disease spreading through Nevermoor"--
213.
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
A lively, stimulating and engaging retelling of purakau - Maori myths - by contemporary Maori writers. Ka mua, ka muri . . . Ancient Maori creation myths, portrayals of larger-than-life heroes and tales of engrossing magical beings have endured through the ages. Some hail back to Hawaiki, some are firmly grounded in New Zealand and its landscape. Through countless generations, the stories have been reshaped and passed on. This new collection presents a wide range of traditional myths that have been retold by some of our best Maori wordsmiths. The writers have added their own creativity, perspe... continue
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The Uncle's Story : A Novel by Witi Ihimaera EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
Set in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam and in presentday New Zealand and North America, Witi Ihimaera's new novel confronts Maori attitudes toward sexuality and masculinity and contains some of the author's most passionate writing to date.
215.
Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka : The Autobiography of a South Sea Trader's Daughter by Florence Frisbie EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka (2nd edition) by Florence (Johnny) Frisbie is the first book written by a Polynesian woman. It tells the amazing story of a young girl growing up on a remote island in the Cook Islands group. Written when Johnny was between the ages of 12 and 14, and published in 1948 when she was 15, Johnny likens her travels through South Pacific islands to those of Ulysses in the Odyssey. Through Johnny's fresh and unspoiled eyes, we read of a Garden-of-Eden existence on a remote atoll, where the land and the sea provide all that is necessary for life. The sea brings danger as we... continue
216.
Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
When Inspector Roderick Alleyn travels to New Zealand with members of an English comedy company, he stumbles upon a deadly diversion among the company's operatic intrigues, and must investigate.
217.
El ensayo general by Eleanor Catton ES
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
«Es imposible comprar entradas para una función como esta y esperar no perder la; inocencia. Es imposible. Tienen que saber a lo que se exponen, ya no son unos niños.» El ensayo general comienza de verdad cuando la prestigiosa Escuela de Teatro de una ciudad neozelandesa inicia las duras pruebas de selección para escoger a aquellos jóvenes con mejores cualidades. Como aún les falta la experiencia en la vida para enfrentarse a ciertos personajes, los profesores de la Escuela les enseñarán a hurgar con dureza en sus emociones más vulnerables para crearlos, ya que tendrán que aprender a utilizarl... continue
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Las luminarias by Eleanor Catton ES
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
«Una novela magnífica: imponente en cuanto a su complejidad estructural, adictiva por su historia y mágica por su forma de recrear un mundo de codicia y oro.»
Un tempestuoso día de enero una prostituta es arrestada.
Ese hecho podría pasar desapercibido en mitad de la fiebre del oro que recorre la costa de Nueva Zelanda en 1866 si no fuera por los otros tres eventos destacados que se producen el mismo día: se descubre una enorme fortuna en la casa de un borracho indigente, un hombre rico desaparece y un capitán de navío de mala repu... continue
219.
Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys. In Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, an unnamed young woman in her late twenties navigates unemployment, boredom, chronic illness and online dating. Her activities are banal -- applying for jobs, looking up horoscopes, managing depression, going on Tinder dates. 'I want to tell someone I love them but there is no one to tell,' she says. 'Except my sister maybe. I want to pick blackberries on a farm and then die.' She observes the ambiguities of social interactions, the absurd intimacies of sex and the indignity o... continue
220.
The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
IN A DYING WORLD, GRIEF HAS A LIFE OF ITS OWN... With the collapse of ecosystems and the extinction of species comes the Grief: an unstoppable melancholia that ends in suicide. When Ruby's friend, mourning the loss of the Great Barrier Reef, succumbs to the Grief, the letters she leaves behind reveal the hidden world of the resurrected dead. The Tasmanian tiger, brought back from extinction in an isolated facility, is only the first... but rebirth is not always biological, and it comes with a price. As a scientist, Ruby resists the Grief by focusing her research on resilient jellyfish, but she... continue