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March 9th, 2009
 | 12:26 pm - books, sf, and more
Some books:
Keri Hulme, who wrote the bone people, also writes poetry; she is a New Zealand writer of Maori heritage, and the bone people won the Booker Prize in 1985. Strands [ISBN 0-86806-475] is her second book of poetry. She has also written a lot of other books, some of which I have read but none of which I have on hand so I can't offer you the ISBN numbers. The Bone People may be the only one that's currently in Books In Print (which notoriously only lists books published in the US), but her work is listed on Amazon here.
Witi Ihimaera, another New Zealand and Maori author, is someone you may have heard of in passing, because he wrote a story for children that was made into a movie, Whale Rider. He has written a series of novels about Maori families, starting with The Matriarch [ISBN 0- 7900-0513-1]; his Amazon page is here.
Amazon doesn't have everything; if you want to read more of Ihimaera's books that you can't find, consider contacting a New Zealand bookstore and ordering from them online. The people at Arts Centre Bookshop have been very helpful to me. There is also Scorpio Books. Consider, also, that these bookshops may be able to help you find other books published outside the US that are not easily available through Barnes and Noble, Borders, etc.
[I have no patience with ordering books through B&N, et al, that are published outside the US since the debacle that occurred when a cousin wrote and illustrated a couple of children's picture books in Toronto, back in the days before Amazon. Since I wanted to help his sales numbers, I did the official thing and ordered through a bookstore; after three weeks they got back to me and said the books didn't exist. I got tired of this and wrote him, and he mailed them to me.]
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