A fresh, personal account of New Zealand, now, from one of our
hardest-hitting writers.
Following Once Were Warriors, Alan Duff wrote Maori: The Crisis and
the Challenge. His controversial comments shook the country. A quarter
of a century later, New Zealand and Maoridom are in a very different
place. And so is Alan - he has published many more books, had two films
made of his works, founded the Duffy Books in Homes literacy programme
and endured 'some less inspiring moments, including bankruptcy'.
Returned from living in France, he views his country with fresh eyes, as
it is now: homing in on the crises in parenting, our prisons, education
and welfare systems, and a growing culture of entitlement that entraps
Pakeha and Maori alike.
Never one to shy away from being a whetstone on which others can sharpen
their own opinions, Alan tells it how he sees it.
