Rangatira : He Purakau

‘He manawaru, he tauteute hoki tenei pukapuka e ata whakaahua ana i te wa koroniara o Aotearoa, i te wa Wikitoria hoki o Ingarangi, ma roto i te tirohanga a tetahi rangatira no Ngati Wai. E miharo rawa atu ana te mahi a Paula Morris ki te whakamarama i te ao o tona tupuna, o Paratene Te Manu, me te aha, kua whai reo ano te rangatira ra e tuturu ana, e marama ana hoki. I tino hakoakoa te ngakau i tenei pukapuka, a, ka kaha tutohua ki nga tangata katoa o Aotearoa.’ — Carol Hirschfeld

Ko Rangatira, he pukapuka na Paula Morris, te toa o te New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction i te tau 2012. Koia tetahi o nga pukapuka hirahira rawa atu o Aotearoa, a, kua whakamaoritia tuatahitia nei e Hinewai Pomare.

‘He pukapuka tenei kua ata whakairotia . . . Kua eke marire te whakaahuatanga mai o Paratene ki te taumata, ko tana reo he humarie, he tuturu marika ano hoki.’ — John McCrystal, New Zealand Listener

‘This is an intriguing and engrossing novel that vividly brings to life colonial New Zealand and Victorian England through the eyes of a Ngati Wai rangatira. Paula Morris has done an extraordinary job in capturing the life of her tupuna, Paratene Te Manu, and gives him a voice that is at once authentic and insightful. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and highly recommend it to all New Zealanders.’ — Carol Hirschfeld

Winner of the New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction in 2012, Paula Morris’s Rangatira is one of the great New Zealand novels, here translated into te reo Maori for the first time by Hinewai Pomare.

‘[An] adroitly told historical novel . . . Paratene [is] a triumph of characterisation, his voice genial and flawlessly authentic.’ — John McCrystal, New Zealand Listener