Meet and greet with Witi Ihimaera

Meet and greet with Maori author Witi Ihimaera for his book.
Summary: A senile tattooed whale meets a mythical rider and asks him to rescue her from Antarctica. During her journey, she meets a Polynesian circus teenager with gills on his back and a young cetacean warrior chosen to alert humans. An adventure novel, an ecological tale, an edifying story, a voyage by the stars that oscillates between the real and the unreal. This book is the sequel to The Tattooed Whale, published in 2022.

The author:
Witi Tame Ihimaera is an English-speaking Maori writer and former diplomat.
He is the first Maori novelist to be published and is now recognised as a major author of postcolonial and indigenous literature. He has written for theatre and cinema, co-produced films and documentaries, edited several books on New Zealand cultures and taught at the University of Auckland. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including being made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France in 2017.

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