Once Were Warriors

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.

Author: Alan Duff
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/28/1995
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.09h x 5.15w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780679761815
ISBN10: 0679761810
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
- Fiction | Family Life | General

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.