Once Were Warriors

by Alan Duff

Overview

Already a smash motion picture from Fine Line Features in New Zealand, this raw and deeply affecting story has also garnered major literary awards abroad. A contemporary story about an urban family in New Zealand, the book combines the action and mood of Blade Runner with the triumph of A Raisin in the Sun.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780099578413
Publisher:	Knopf Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/28/2009
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Alan Duff was born in 1950 and lives with his wife and four children in Havelock North, New Zealand. He has published the novels Once Were Warriors and One Night Out Stealing; a novella, State Ward; and a work of nonfiction, Maori: The Crisis and the Challenge. His novel Once Were Warriors won the PEN Best First Book for Fiction Award and was made into an internationally acclaimed film, for which Duff wrote the original screenplay.

Editorial Reviews

"A searing look at the urban subculture of New Zealand's native people." — Toronto Globe and Mail

"A starkly realistic account...as important, as frank, as powerful a book as [Alice Walker's The Color Purple] was for Americans."

Dominion (New Zealand)

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