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Huia Short Stories 4: Contemporary Maori Fiction
Huia Short Stories 4 Contemporary Maori Fiction Author:Winners from the E Tuhi! Awards The cloak looked just plain brown from a distance, but up close it was speckled with the colors of sand and cream and mud and treacle. Up close it looked like heavy rain. Diverting, beautiful, strong: these stories could have come from no other country. The best of the short fiction from the 2001 Maori Literature Awards, judged by Patu Ho... more »hepa, Maori language commissioner, Keri Hulme, writer, whitebaiter and Terry Sturm, professor of English at Auckland University. You don’t say a word. You just let me touch, feel, on and on. Like a little baby in a crib, feeling its own skin, feeling the air; the world, for the first time. The authors include: Te Awhina Arahanga, Kerrie Blackmoore AhKiau, Lindsay Charman-Love, Gerry Te Kapa Coates, Caroline Adair Down, David Down, Trish fong, James George, Wiremu Grace, Aroha Harris, K.T. Harrison, Eru J. Hart, Vicki-Anne Heikeil, Darryn Joseph, Phil Kawana, Zion A. Komene, Mahinaarangi Leong, Pierre Lyndon, Michelle Manning, Dale Moffatt, Kellyana Morey, Paula Morris, Whetu-Marama Pahi, Maraea Rakuraku, Dianne Sharma-Winter, Charles Shortland, Lavinia de Lilva, Margaret Smith, Ngahuia Wade, Okeroa Waitai. An even if you could explain everything, some things need a story because the reality doesn’t touch the soul.« less