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Kataraina by Becky Manawatu

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In Auē eight-year-old Ārama was taken by his brother, Taukiri, to live withKat and Stu at the farm in Kaikōura, setting in train the tragedy thatunfolded. Ārama’s aunty Kat was at the centre of events, but silenced byabuse her voice was absent from the story.

In Kataraina, Kat and her whānau take over the telling. As one, they returnto her childhood and the time when she first began to feel the greenness of theswamp in her veins – the swamp that holds her tears and the tears of hertīpuna, the swamp on the land owned by Stu that has been growing since the girlshot the man.

Becky Manawatu’s new novel is the much-awaited sequel to award-winningbestseller Auē and is unflinching in its portrayal of the destructive wayspeople love one another and the ancestral whenua on which they stand.

In Auē eight-year-old Ārama was taken by his brother, Taukiri, to live withKat and Stu at the farm in Kaikōura, setting in train the tragedy thatunfolded. Ārama’s aunty Kat was at the centre of events, but silenced byabuse her voice was absent from the story.

In Kataraina, Kat and her whānau take over the telling. As one, they returnto her childhood and the time when she first began to feel the greenness of theswamp in her veins – the swamp that holds her tears and the tears of hertīpuna, the swamp on the land owned by Stu that has been growing since the girlshot the man.

Becky Manawatu’s new novel is the much-awaited sequel to award-winningbestseller Auē and is unflinching in its portrayal of the destructive wayspeople love one another and the ancestral whenua on which they stand.

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