Kōhine

Book Author Colleen Maria Lenihan
Rights Available World excl. NZ

Tokyo is a humming backdrop to an array of outsiders: a young woman arrives to work as a stripper, the manager of a love hotel hatches a sleazy plan, a spirit wanders Harajuku, and a mother embarks on a sad journey.

Linked through recurring characters and themes, these haunting stories hurtle us into the streets of Tokyo and small-town New Zealand. The secular city of salarymen, sex workers and schoolgirls is juxtaposed with rongoā healers, lone men and rural matriarchs of New Zealand.

About the Author & Illustrator
Colleen Maria Lenihan (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) is a fiction writer, screenwriter and photographer, and a graduate of Te Papa Tupu and The Creative Hub. Her writing has appeared in Reading Room and The Pantograph Punch, and Kōhine is her first book. Colleen has been awarded a number of residencies: Michael King Writers’ Centre Emerging Māori Writer (2019); Newroom/Surrey Hotel Winner (2019); the Dan Davin Literary Foundation (2021); and Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) and Creative New Zealand Emerging Māori Writer in Residence (2023).

 

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Description

Publisher
Huia Publishers

Extent
232pp

Format

138 mm x 210 mm

Binding
Paperback

Category
Fiction

Genre
Contemporary Fiction

Publication Date
August 2023

Rights Available:
World excl. NZ

Rights Agents:

World
Eboni Waitere
rights@huia.co.nz

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“All the stories in Kōhine are suggestive and atmospheric, with risks taken in style and structure. This is an important addition to our literary culture.”

Josie Shapiro, WOMAN Magazine

“I like how closely knitted the stories are and also how much breathing room there is in the prose. There’s an untetheredness, an airy titillation, a lilt to it – and a sense, always, that the ground could drop out from under you.”

Catherine Woulfe, The Spinoff

“There’s that really Māori sensibility of letting metaphor live and breathe on the page in a really
tangible way that carries metaphor beyond just an image”

Michelle Rahurahu, RNZ

“a remarkably accomplished author who has given us a work that
further places Te Ao Māori firmly at the forefront of literature in this country.”

Anna Rankin, Newsroom

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