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What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

Alan Duff

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Vintage New Zealand
21 March 2014
The prize-winning, passionate and uncompromising sequel to the blistering classic novel, Once Were Warriors

The prize-winning, passionate and uncompromising sequel to the blistering classic novel, Once Were Warriors

'She always came the following day for a second visit on this yearly remembering; in fact, Polly Heke came several times a year and had done for the last two, from when she herself hit the same age as Grace'd been when she, uh, when she killed herself.'

The searing power of Alan Duff's masterpiece Once Were Warriors rocked a nation and was acclaimed around the world.

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? is the challenging, poetic sequel, taking up the story of the Heke family six years after Grace's suicide.

The novel won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and was made into a film.
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Imprint:   Vintage New Zealand
Country of Publication:   New Zealand
Dimensions:   Height: 199mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   240g
ISBN:   9781775535614
ISBN 10:   1775535614
Pages:   256
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Alan Duff was born in Rotorua in 1950. He has written novels, including Once Were Warriors, One Night Out Stealing and What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?, a novella (State Ward), several children's books and a number of non-fiction works. Once Were Warriors won the Pen Best First Book of Fiction Award and What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. Both novels were made into internationally acclaimed films. Duff was the driving force behind the Books in Homes scheme, which, with commercial sponsorship and government support, aims to break the cycle of illiteracy, poverty, anger and violence among underprivileged children by providing books for them to own. The New Zealand Listener claimed that Duff's debut, Once Were Warriors, 'bursts upon the literary landscape with all the noise and power of a new volcano', while acclaimed writer Witi Ihimaera wrote, 'This is the Haka, the rage of a people who, yes, once were warriors . . . A kick to the guts of New Zealand's much-vaunted pride in its Maori/Pakeha race relations. A breathless fearless debut.' The Sydney Morning Herald regarded the sequel, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?, as 'a masterpiece'- 'powerful, authentic, moving, brilliantly written . . . a profound and passionate novel . . . a memorable experience'. The Australian praised its 'universal truths to be savoured for their poetic insight', while the Canberra Times called it 'a brilliant work . . . poetic and full of hope'. The New Zealand Listener wrote that What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? 'carries the story on with doubled brilliance. The new book is just as dynamic, just as in-your-face as the first one, but less violent, more layered, more fundamentally thoughtful and challenging.'

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