Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
A New Zealand Story
Thompson, Christina
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
A multilayered, highly informative and insightful book that blends memoir, historical and travel narrativevivid and meticulously researched.San Francisco Chronicle In this involving, compassionate memoir, Christina Thompson tells the story of her romance and eventual marriage to a Maori man, interspersing it with a narrative history of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand.
AUTHOR BIO
Christina Thompson is the editor of Harvard Review. Her essays and articles have appeared in numerous journals, including American Scholar, the Journal of Pacific History, Australian Literary Studies, and in the 1999, 2000, and 2006 editions of Best Australian Essays. She lives near Boston with her family.
BOOK REVIEWS
Charming, insightful, honest, balanced, the book offers a unique look at the pressures of marriage across cultural, racial, and geographical boundaries. Vivid, fascinating reading.Philadelphia Inquirer [A] fine account. Her observations about the enduring effects of colonization [are] penetrating. She puts her vantage point of insider-outsider to good effect, tracing the genealogy of racial stereotypes and cutting through some of New Zealands most cherished myths about itself.New York Times Book Review
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ISBN: 1596911271
ISBN(13-digit): 9781596911277
Dewey Decimal: 990
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 271
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