Tina Makereti writes novels, essays and short stories. The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke is her fourth book. Her short story, ‘Black Milk’, won the Pacific Regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize (). · The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke is her fourth book. Her short story, ‘Black Milk’, won the Pacific Regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize (). Her first novel, Where the Rekohu Bone Sings was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and won the Nga Kupu Ora Aotearoa Maori Book Award for Fiction, also won by her short story collection, Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa . James Pōneke is a young Māori orphan, raised by missionaries, with a burning desire to travel and explore the world. When an English artist on a tour of New Zealand invites James to return home with him, the boy eagerly accepts and agrees to become a living exhibit at the artist’s London show. By day, James dresses in full tribal outfit, being stared at, prodded and examined by paying visitors.
James Pōneke is a young Māori orphan, raised by missionaries, with a burning desire to travel and explore the world. When an English artist on a tour of New Zealand invites James to return home with him, the boy eagerly accepts and agrees to become a living exhibit at the artist's London show. The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke, by Tina Makereti The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke is another of the titles longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Literary Awards. But it was on my TBR months before the longlist was announced, thanks to an enticing review at Alys on the Blog. THE IMAGINARY LIVES OF JAMES PŌNEKE Tina Makereti sets herself a bold challenge with her debut novel and succeeds admirably. Having won prizes for her short stories, with debut novel Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings Tina Makereti makes a bold foray into an area of New Zealand history that has been largely unrepresented and often.
James Pōneke is a young Māori orphan, raised by missionaries, with a burning desire to travel and explore the world. When an English artist on a tour of New Zealand invites James to return home with him, the boy eagerly accepts and agrees to become a living exhibit at the artist’s London show. By day, James dresses in full tribal outfit, being stared at, prodded and examined by paying visitors. Author: Tina Makereti Title: The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke Publisher: Vintage (Penguin Random House New Zealand) , pages ISBN: Source: personal copy, purchased from Fishpond. Available from Fishpond: The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke $AUD. THE IMAGINARY LIVES OF JAMES PŌNEKE. “ The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke is many things: part unsparing colonial reckoning; part fraught coming-of-age memoir; part PT Barnum-inflected tale of spectacle, showmanship and the picaresque. James leaves New Zealand and arrives in London naively hoping for enlightenment.
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