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Ancestry by Albert Wendt
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In Ancestry Albert Wendt introduces us to a cast of characters who live life balanced between the Samoan and Palagi worlds. Andrea’s husband is surprised when she gets up early one Anzac Day to take their daughter and half-Palagi grandson to the dawn parade. Later that day Andrea tells him of a cryptic ...Show more
Breaking Connections by Albert Wendt
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Near Fine
A dynamic group has emerged in Auckland whose members refer to themselves as the Tribe. Mainly Polynesian, they grow up together, rise from poverty and become successful professionals, bound by love and fierce loyalty. At the centre, is Aaron, who lives at the edge of danger, shady dealings and self-de ...Show more
From Manoa to a Ponsonby Garden by Albert Wendt
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This new collection by Albert Wendt moves from the warm valley winds of Hawai'i to the seasons of a garden in Auckland. From Manoa to a Ponsonby Garden is a collection of poignant, extraordinary poems - alert and self-confident, challenging of literary conventions, rough-hewn yet imbued with compelling ...Show more
Mango's Kiss by Albert Wendt
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Since the 1960s, Albert Wendt has created a profound and fabulous Pacific world that is uniquely his own. A fictional world focused on Samoa and New Zealand and reaching out to the centres of the world, a world inhabited by the richest menagerie of characters in Pacific fiction, characters whose lives a ...Show more
Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan
$49.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Whetu Moana II | Reading Level: very good
First published in 2003, the award-winning Whetu Moana was the first anthology of contemporary Polynesian poetry in English edited by Polynesians and was lauded by reviewers and widely read around the world. Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English is the follow-up volume to Whetu Moana - Wh ...Show more
Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater : A Writer’s Early Life (BWB Texts) by Albert Wendt
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
In this BWB Text, Manualaivao Albert Wendt offers his readers a short but tantalising tour of his early life – and the influences that shaped him as a novelist and poet. The context and contours, the sights and sounds, the myths and memories of his Samoan upbringing, in the swampy Vaipe of Apia’s back ...Show more
Photographs by Albert Wendt
$19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Albert Wendt moves from ancient Polynesia to contemporary China to family gatherings in an Auckland garden. These poems celebrate grandchildren, family, ancestors and a heritage that stretches back to the atua, and they show a profound understanding of the ways of in Aotearoa / New Zealand.
Sons For The Return Home (Popular Penguins) by Albert Wendt
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ...Show more
The Book of the Black Star by Albert Wendt
$29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Black Star, / were you born / during the first / Dawn / before / Tagaloa-A-Lagi / invented the Alphabet / of / Omens? In these words, hand drawn in black ink and swooping in and out of rolling patterns of dense black lines, Albert Wendt begins his exciting new collection. The Book of the Black Star bold ...Show more
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