Pounamu pounamu / Witi Ihimaera.

Short stories.

"First published by Reed books 1972" --T.p. verso.

"40th anniversary edition"--Jacket.

"A Raupo book."

Contains author's notes by Witi Ihimaera for each story.

Foreword / Fiona Kidman -- Introduction -- A game of cards -- Beginning of the tournament -- The makutu on Mrs Jones -- Fire on greenstone -- The other side of the fence -- In search of the Emerald City -- One summer morning -- The child -- The whale -- Tangi.

Foreword / Fiona Kidman -- A game of cards -- Beginning of the tournament -- The makutu on Mrs. Jones -- Fire on greenstone -- Th eother side of the fence -- In search of the Emeral City -- One summer morning -- The child -- The whale -- Tangi.

This anniversary edition of Witi Ihimaera's Pounamu, Pounamu celebrates the 40th year in print of one of New Zealand's most seminal works of fiction. When Pounamu, Pounamu was published in 1972, it was a landmark occasion for New Zealand literature in many ways. It was the first work of fiction published by a Maori writer, it was the first collection of short stories that looked at contemporary Maori life and it launched the career of on of New Zealand's best-known authors. The Pounamu, Pounamu 40th Anniversary Edition is a beautiful hardback collector's volume. It features a foreword by Dame Fiona Kidman and a commentary by Witi Ihimaera on each of the stories. In these author's notes Witi looks back to events from his own childhood that inspired Pounamu, Pounamu and the experience of writing and launching the book as a young man in the early '70s.