1 edition of Kehua found in the catalog.
Published
2010
by Corvus in London
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Written in
A young woman flees New Zealand in the wake of a murder and suicide but on settling in Muswell Hill discovers she"s being haunted by kehua, Maori ghosts searching for their ancestral home and forced to remain on earth. They are not dangerous and often try to be helpful ... except they tend to get things wrong.
Edition Notes
| Statement | Fay Weldon |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PR6073.E374 K44 2010 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 325 pages ; |
| Number of Pages | 325 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL26464210M |
| ISBN 10 | 1848874596, 1848876882 |
| ISBN 10 | 9781848874596, 9781848876880 |
| LC Control Number | 2010533217 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 620352046 |
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2. (noun) ghost - spirits that linger on earth after death and haunt the living. Ki a au, ko te kēhua kei waho tēnā mea i te tangata, he tinana tonu tōna pēnā tonu me koe, me au hoki te āhua o tōna tinana (TP 1/12/). / In my opinion, a kēhua is external of a person, it has . Buy Kehua!: A Ghost Story By Fay Weldon (Author), in Very Good condition. Our cheap used books come with free delivery in the UK. ISBN: ISBN
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The kehua are part of Maori tradition, though the McLeans are not Maori Kehua book only spent a few years in New Zealand. Well, never mind, they go where they are needed. Author Fay Weldon writes in a whimsical literary style, alternating between her own story as the novelist confiding in her readers and the actual novel about the McLeans/5(10).
Kehua. by Fay Weldon is a frame story, and the narrator, the author of the story of a torn family history of murder and incest, tells it like a modern ghost story. There are more a than a few modern Gothic horror allusions, including a character who is famous for starring as a vampire in a popular film franchise, in addition to the Maori ghosts /5.
T his is a haunting book, in more ways than the obvious. Kehua are spirits, bat-like flutters, those flashes and whispers one catches on the periphery of Author: Euan Ferguson. The NOOK Book (eBook) of the Kehua. by Fay Weldon at Barnes & Noble.
FREE Shipping on $35 or more. How the kehua became attached to a three-year-old white girl is the origin of your writer’s tale. Suffice to say that murder is at the root of it all, that Beverley and her female bloodline carry a weighty spiritual burden and that this is Brand: Europa Editions, Incorporated.
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Get this from a library. Kehua book. [Robyn Kahukiwa] -- A little girl is convinced that there is a kehua (ghost) in the hall when the light is out, so she asks her Nanny to help make it go away. Suggested level: junior. Kehua. is governed by the conceit of a host of friendly but addled Maori spirits liminal between life and death.
These lost spirits pursue Weldon's lost characters in a plot as wayward as it is Author: Stevie Davies. Get this from a library. Kehua!. [Fay Weldon; Karina van Santen] -- Als een jonge Londense vrouw haar oma vertelt dat ze haar man wil verlaten voor een filmacteur, maakt ze daarmee geesten uit hun Nieuw-Zeelandse familieverleden los.
Fluttering and chattering, these are our kehua - a whole multiplying flock of Maori spirits (all will be explained) goaded into wakefulness by the conversation within. Scarlet - a long-legged, skinny young woman of the new world order - has announced to Beverley - her aged grandmother - that she intends to leave home and husband for the.
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See all. How the kehua became attached to a three-year-old white girl is the origin of your writer’s tale. Suffice to say that murder is at the root of it all, that Beverley and her female bloodline carry a weighty spiritual burden and that this is the story of how they learn to live with their ghosts, or maybe how their ghosts learn to live with : Europa Editions.
The consequences of a long-ago murder in New Zealand reverberate all the way to England in Weldon’s latest (Habits of the House,etc.).Kehua are the Maori spirits of the wandering dead, and they seem to have followed Beverley to North London, where she is recuperating from a knee replacement and lending a skeptical ear to granddaughter Scarlet’s confidence that she is leaving her.
Kehua. is a warmly exuberant story of Maori spirits (imported from New Zealand, the author’s place of birth), female fugitives, and the writing of a novel (maybe this very novel). The chief delight of this generous and wonderfully humorous book is the running commentary of “your writer,” working on her computer downstairs and chatting.
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Kehua. may be in danger of disappearing under its heft, but as a study of fiction, femininity and family it is bursting with intelligence and fire. Kehua. by Fay Weldon. "A haunting book The novel is a spirited triumph: adroit, affecting and bung-full of genuine humour and ideas."-- The Guardian "Weldon crafts this traffic between spirit worlds with characteristic wit, and without sacrificing the intricacies of a family's struggle to accept its past."-- Financial Times "Wonderfully wicked, highly readable."--Brand: Fay Weldon.
The kehua are part of Maori tradition, though the McLeans are not Maori and only spent a few years in New Zealand. Well, never mind, they go where they are needed. Author Fay Weldon writes in a whimsical literary style, alternating between her own story as the novelist confiding in her readers and the actual novel about the McLeans.
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As “your writer” realizes halfway through the book, kehua are actually “a metaphor for generational family dysfunction.”Author: Jincy Willett.
