Potiki

A prize-winning classic novel, as relevant today as when it was first written. Potiki is a work of spellbinding power in which the myths of older times are inextricably woven into the political realities of today.

In a small coastal community threatened by developers who would ravage their lands it is a time of fear and confusion — and growing anger. The prophet child Tokowaru-i-te-Marama shares his people's struggles against bulldozers and fast money talk. When dramatic events menace the marae, his grief threatens to burst beyond the confines of his twisted body. His all-seeing eye looks forward to a strange and terrible new dawn.

Potiki won the New Zealand Book Awards in 1987.

ISBN: 9780140088038 | Published: 12 September 2001 | Paperback | 192 pages
ISBN: 9781776950676 | Published: 1 August 2023 | Paperback | 192 pages