Mutuwhenua = The moon sleeps / Patricia Grace.

By:

Grace, Patricia, 1937- [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Auckland : Longman Paul, 1978Description: 155 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0582717612
9780582717619
0582717620
9780582717626

Other title:

Moon sleeps

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

New Zealand fiction

Summary: [This book] is about different kinds of love: the love of Ripeka (who is also Ngaio and Londa) for her parents and her extended family, and their love for her; love of the land and of traditional Maori ways of living; and love between Ripeka and Graeme, a young Pakeha schoolteacher. It is the story ... of Ripeka's attempts to free herself from the old bondings, and of what happens when, after her marriage, she moves away physically into a Pakeha and urban world and discovers that she cannot move away spiritually - discovers the strength of the old ways ..."--Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Texts - cam	TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection	PAC 828.9933 GRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	FEAH25062337

[This book] is about different kinds of love: the love of Ripeka (who is also Ngaio and Londa) for her parents and her extended family, and their love for her; love of the land and of traditional Maori ways of living; and love between Ripeka and Graeme, a young Pakeha schoolteacher. It is the story ... of Ripeka's attempts to free herself from the old bondings, and of what happens when, after her marriage, she moves away physically into a Pakeha and urban world and discovers that she cannot move away spiritually - discovers the strength of the old ways ..."--Back cover.