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Tū / Patricia Grace.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 2004.Description: 287 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0143019201
  • 9780143019206
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Grace, Patricia, 1937-DDC classification:
  • NZ823.2 22
LOC classification:
  • PR9639.3.G7 T8 2004
Contents:
Three brothers, a war and secrets. Pita -- Little Father, Big Brother -- stays at home to look after his family as he's done since he was a small boy. There's Jess and Ani Rose to keep him there, but he decides he has to go to war. Rangi -- chatterer, mischievous -- is the first to go to war. He has loads of mates and is one of the bravest fighters in the Maori Battalion. He's the go-between for Pita and Tu. Te Hokowhitu-a-Tu -- Tuboy, Tu Bear -- is the family's hope for the future. First chance he gets he becomes a soldier, and finds there's no place he'd rather be than with his battalion. Some years later, a niece and a nephew come looking for answers. It is time for revelations.
Awards:
  • Montana New Zealand Book Awards Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry, 2005
Summary: "Three brothers, a war and secrets. Some years later, a niece and nephew come looking for answers. It is time for revelations"--Publisher description.
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Novel.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-287).

Three brothers, a war and secrets. Pita -- Little Father, Big Brother -- stays at home to look after his family as he's done since he was a small boy. There's Jess and Ani Rose to keep him there, but he decides he has to go to war. Rangi -- chatterer, mischievous -- is the first to go to war. He has loads of mates and is one of the bravest fighters in the Maori Battalion. He's the go-between for Pita and Tu. Te Hokowhitu-a-Tu -- Tuboy, Tu Bear -- is the family's hope for the future. First chance he gets he becomes a soldier, and finds there's no place he'd rather be than with his battalion. Some years later, a niece and a nephew come looking for answers. It is time for revelations.

"Three brothers, a war and secrets. Some years later, a niece and nephew come looking for answers. It is time for revelations"--Publisher description.

English version.

Montana New Zealand Book Awards Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry, 2005

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