The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke
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The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke by Tina Makereti
Exhibited as a curiosity, a Maori boy turns his gaze on London
`The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke is many things: part unsparing colonial reckoning; part fraught coming-of-age memoir; part PT Barnum-inflected tale of spectacle, showmanship and the picaresque' - NZ Listener, `Suggestive and thoughtful as well as being a very compelling story' - Louise O'Brien, Radio New Zealand, `Like her previous Where the Rekohu Bone Sings, this novel relies on scrupulous researchIt, too, revives the dry bones of history and turns it into a living and fascinating story' - Sunday Star-Times, `Tina Makereti explores questions of identity, cultural collisions and Victorian attitudes to race, colonialism and prejudice... Fascinating reading' - Australian Woman's Weekly
Tina Makereti’s first collection of stories, Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa, won the inaugural Fiction Award at Nga Kupu Ora, the Māori Book Awards, in 2011. Her debut novel, Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings, won the same award in 2014, and was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. In 2016 she won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Pacific Region) for her story 'Black Milk'.
Her second novel, The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke, was first published in New Zealand in 2018 and was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
She has a PhD in creative writing and teaches at Massey University in New Zealand.
Her second novel, The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke, was first published in New Zealand in 2018 and was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
She has a PhD in creative writing and teaches at Massey University in New Zealand.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781785631528 |
| ISBN 10 | 1785631527 |
| Title | The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke |
| Author | Tina Makereti |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Eye Books |
| Year published | 2019-07-19 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Commended for International Dublin Literary Award 2020, Commended for Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019, Short-listed for New Zealand Heritage Book Awards 2019 |
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