‘He manawarū, he tāuteute hoki tēnei pukapuka e āta whakaahua ana i te wā koroniara o Aotearoa, i te wā Wikitoria hoki o Ingarangi, mā roto i te tirohanga a tētahi rangatira nō Ngāti Wai. E mīharo rawa atu ana te mahi a Paula Morris ki te whakamārama i te ao o tōna tupuna, o Paratene Te Manu, me te aha, kua whai reo anō te rangatira rā e tūturu ana, e mārama ana hoki. I tino hākoakoa te ngākau i tēnei pukapuka, ā, ka kaha tūtohua ki ngā tāngata katoa o Aotearoa.’ — Carol Hirschfeld
Ko Rangatira, he pukapuka nā Paula Morris, te toa o te New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction i te tau 2012. Koia tētahi o ngā pukapuka hirahira rawa atu o Aotearoa, ā, kua whakamāoritia tuatahitia nei e Hinewai Pōmare.
‘He pukapuka tēnei kua āta whakairotia . . . Kua eke mārire te whakaahuatanga mai o Paratene ki te taumata, ko tana reo he hūmārie, he tūturu mārika anō hoki.’ — John McCrystal, New Zealand Listener
‘This is an intriguing and engrossing novel that vividly brings to life colonial New Zealand and Victorian England through the eyes of a Ngāti Wai rangatira. Paula Morris has done an extraordinary job in capturing the life of her tupuna, Paratene Te Manu, and gives him a voice that is at once authentic and insightful. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and highly recommend it to all New Zealanders.’ — Carol Hirschfeld
Winner of the New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction in 2012, Paula Morris’s Rangatira is one of the great New Zealand novels, here translated into te reo Māori for the first time by Hinewai Pōmare.
‘[An] adroitly told historical novel . . . Paratene [is] a triumph of characterisation, his voice genial and flawlessly authentic.’ — John McCrystal, New Zealand Listener