Potiki Author:Patricia Grace Winner of the 1987 New Zealand Fiction Award, this is a work of spellbinding power that weaves myths of older times into the political realities of today. Set amid fear and confusion, Patricia Grace's novel about a coastal Maori community threatened with resettlement pits tribal and ancestral allegiance against the reality of modern developm... more »ent. A masterpiece of Maori fiction, it has been called "as delicate as a Japanese brushwork, yet as poignant and throat-aching as the loss of a loved one." First published in 1986.« less