Auckland: The City in Literature

Author(s): Edited by Witi Ihimaera

NZ Literature | Secondhand

Each book in this groundbreaking series is an anthology of writing featuring one of our major cities. Chosen with care by a well-known editor from each city, the selections are usually from works of fiction (short stories and novels), but extracts from writers' memoirs and some poems are also included. The writers are both contemporary and historical and all have either lived in or visited the city concerned. All the extracts have something significant to say about the character of the city, and together they create a strong picture of what makes the city the unique place it is. Most of New Zealand's great writers are represented in the series. Each book is presented in an attractive cased and jacketed format. They can be dipped into at leisure or given to friends as a splendid memento of the city. The pictures on the jackets were specially commissioned from Christchurch born and Wellington-based artist Jacqueline Henderson, whose work is included in many private and corporate collections. Includes work by Maurice Gee, Paula Morris, C.K. Stead, Diane Brown, Albert Wendt, Tina Shaw, Peter Wells, Allen Curnow and more.


Product Information

Witi Ihimaera is one of New Zealand's most celebrated novelists and short story writers. The author of prize-winning novels including The Matriarch and Bulibasha is also a screenwriter and opera librettist and the editor of a monumental five-volume anthology of Maori writing, Te Ao Marama. His novel The Whale Rider has been made into one of New Zealand's most successful feature films

General Fields

  • : 9780908988365
  • : Exisle Publishing Limited
  • : Exisle Publishing (New Zealand)
  • : 0.358338
  • : November 2003
  • : 165x125mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Edited by Witi Ihimaera
  • : Hardback
  • : English
  • : 820.80099324
  • : very good
  • : 240pp