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Once Were Warriors
by Alan Duff
SYNOPSIS: Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's
indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw
and compelling, it tells the story of BethHeke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her
family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in
which they live. Relegated to government housing in an unnamed city, she lives just two
vacant blocks away from whites whose homes offer tantalizing glimpses of a privileged
existence she and her family will never have. As far as Beth is concerned, the Maoris
would not have become impoverished lackeys with very little self-esteem had they stayed
close to their warrior roots. Following a series of tragedies in Beth's family and
entourage, she finds strength by summoning up her tribal heritage and teaching it to
others. Conveying both the rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left by its
absence, "Once Were Warriors" is a masterpiece of unblinking realism,
irresistible energy, and great sorrow: Alan Duff (himself the son of a Maori
mother and a white father) attacks the view that assimilation is the first step out of
poverty, and he does so by spinning a compelling tale which echoes similar aspects of the
history of indigenous populations of thes southwest United States..
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Paperback - 192 pages Reprint edition
(March 1995)
January selection for The Men's Book Club of Zuni
The River Why
by David James Duncan
SYNOPSIS: this is about the coming-of-age tale of Gus Orviston's search for the
Pacific Northwest's elusive steelhead, a metaphor for Gus's internal quest for
self-knowledge, appeals to all who cherish a good yarn and memorable characters.
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Paperback Reissue edition (February
1988)
February selection for the Men's Book Club of Zuni
Life and Times of Michael K
by Michael Coetzee
SYNOPSIS: AKafkaesque depictionof the travails of Michael K, a simple man whose
brutal upbringing is only matched by his harsh surroundings and constantly disturbed
journey through life. Michael is a man who is starving physically and emotionally, but not
spiritually. Relationships make him human
and allow him to develop and display his devotion. Coetzee places his story in the context
of apartheid as practiced until relatively recently by the Republic of South Africa. In a
South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K. sets out to take his ailing mother back to her
rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal,
somehow purposeless roving armies. Michael K.'s story depicts how such societies and
other intrusive political and social environments interfere with personal and private
attempts to live independently. The story also positions the need for an interior,
spiritual life as the center of human experience.
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Paperback - 184 pages Reprint
edition (February 1995)
March selection for the Men's Book Club of Zuni
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
SYNOPSIS: One of the most widely read novels from Nigeria's most
famous novelist. Things Fall Apart is a gripping study of the problem of European
colonialism in Africa. The story relates the cultural collision that occurs when Christian
English missionaries arrive among the Ibos of Nigeria, bringing along their European ways
of life and religion. In the novel, the Nigerian Okonkwo recognizes the cultural
imperialism of the white men and tries to show his own people how their own society will
fall apart if they exchange their own cultural core for that of the English.
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Paperback - 209 pages (October 1994)
April/May selection for the Men's Book Club of Zuni
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