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Selten ist Romanen vergönnt, was mit Alan Duffs »Warriors« geschah: Er veränderte das Selbstverständnis seines Landes. Monatelang stand er an der Spitze der Bestsellerlisten. Die Verfilmung brach sämtliche Rekorde in der Geschichte Neuseelands und löste eine Flut von Debatten und Initiativen aus.Mit größter Intensität erzählt Duff, selbst Maori, vom Leben im Maori-Ghetto von Pine Block. Von Jake, dem arbeitslosen Hünen, der sich auf nichts ver...

A powerful and controversial first novel that has been on the New Zealand bestseller list since its publication in 1990. Recently made into a major film (to which this is a tie-in) due for national release in the UK in February 1995, this is a frank and moving tale of Moari life in modern day New Zealand. A Vintage original.

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One night out stealing two small-time hoods chance upon the home of a wealthy Wellington lawyer... The ensuing events unfold with stark brutality amidst a seldom-seen New Zealand cityscape of littered streets reflected in rain puddles and crowded speeding highways and noisy smoke-filled bars, a world of inarticulate turmoil.

Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live. Conveying both the rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left by its absence, Once Were W...