384 pp. February 2002
paper, ISBN 978-0-8248-2576-8, $19.00
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The Uncle's Story: A Novel
by Witi Ihimaera
Talanoa: Contemporary Pacific Literature
"Passionate, muscular prose" --Honolulu Weekly, 20 November 2002
Michael Mahana's personal disclosure to his parents leads to the uncovering of another family secret-about his uncle, Sam, who had fought in the Vietnam War. Now, armed with his uncle's diary, Michael goes searching for the truth about his uncle, about the secret the Mahana family has kept hidden for over thirty years, and what happened to Sam. A powerful love story set in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam and in present-day New Zealand and North America, Witi Ihimaera's powerful new novel courageously confronts Maori attitudes to sexuality and masculinity and contains some of Ihimaera's most passionate writing to date. For sale only in the U.S., its dependencies, Canada, and Mexico
Witi Ihimaera's novels include the award-winning The Matriarch and its sequel, The Dream Swimmer. He is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Auckland.
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