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Cargando... Where the Rēkohu bone singspor Tina Makereti
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I really enjoyed this book. It tells the story of the relationship between the Maori and the Maoriori through three different stories: the first of a Maori girl growing up in the 1880s with a Maoriori slave boy; the second of twins in modern day New Zealand, and the third of a Maoriori ancestor who has died. I liked the use of the Maori language in a way that did not interrupt the flow of the text, but without requiring knowledge of Maori (it was possible to work out what was going on even if you didn't know the Maori words), and the ways in which the story got inside the skin of the characters. I was less keen on the ancestor voice, which I didn't find entirely convincing or necessary (although it did make the other two stories hang together a bit more), but overall, worth a read. Winner of the fiction category of the 2014 Nga Kupu Ora Aotearoa Maori Book Awards.
Tina Makereti's first novel has the same blend of mundane and mythic, homely and heraldic that distinguished her excellent short story collection, Once Upon A Time In Aotearoa. It follows the lives of two couples, the first joined by a friendship that swells into something much greater, the other by blood ties and history. They learn secrets and destinies that mean shifts of home or allegiance.
From the Chatham Islands/ Rekohu to London, from 1835 to the 21st century, this quietly powerful and compelling novel confronts the complexity of being Moriori, Maori and Pakeha. In the 1880s, Mere yearns for independence. Iraia wants the same but, as the descendant of a slave, such things are hardly conceivable. One summer, they notice their friendship has changed, but if they are ever to experience freedom they will need to leave their home in the Queen Charlotte Sounds. A hundred years later, Lula and Bigs are born. The birth is literally one in a million, as their mother, Tui, likes to say. When Tui dies, they learn there is much she kept secret and they, too, will need to travel beyond their world, to an island they barely knew existed. Neither Mere and Iraia nor Lula and Bigs are aware that someone else is part of their journeys. He does not watch over them so much as through them, feeling their loss and confusion as if it were his own. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The contemporary story follows twins Lula and Biggs as they come to terms with their mother's death and the that facts are revealed about her ancestor.
We are then taken back 100 years to read about their forbears and in particular the of their Moriori origins. Interspersed with these chapters is the voice of the Moriori ancestral spirit. I felt engaged with each of these time periods and the characters therein. It is both informative and entertaining read. Recommended. ( )