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The Songmaker's Chair
Author(s): Albert Wendt (Author)
- Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
- Publication Date: 31 Aug. 2004
- Language: English
- Print length: 277 pages
- ISBN-10: 0824829255
- ISBN-13: 9780824829254
Book Description
Auckland, one summer weekend. A family fused together by the energies of multicultural Aotearoa New Zealand faces meltdown as tensions build between migrant and New Zealand-born generations, and between Samoan, Maori, and Patagi family members. Why is it we’ve strayed this far? We think we’ve found a firm fit to this land. To our children and mokopuna it’s home. That’s good enough pe ‘a o’o mal le Amen and Papatuanuku embraces us.
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About the Author
Albert Wendt has been an influential figure in the developments that have shaped New Zealand and Pacific literature since the 1970s, writing numerous works of fiction and several volumes of poetry, and editing notable anthologies of Pacific literature. He is a professor of New Zealand literature at the University of Auckland. The Songmaker’s Chair is his first full-length play.
