Young Adult

Legacy

Whiti Hereaka


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WINNER, Best Young Adult Fiction, New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, 2019

Seventeen-year-old Riki is worried about school and the future, but mostly about his girlfriend, Gemma, who has suddenly stopped seeing or texting him. But on his way to see her, he’s hit by a bus and his life radically changes. Riki wakes up one hundred years earlier in Egypt, in 1915, and finds he’s living through his great-great-grandfather’s experiences in the Māori Contingent.

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At the same time that Riki tries to  make sense of what’s happening and find a way home, we go back in time and read transcripts of interviews Riki’s great-great-grandfather gave in 1975 about his experiences in this war and its impact on their family. Gradually we realise the fates of Riki and his great-great-grandfather are intertwined.

Genre

Young Adult

Pages

268

Language

English

Publication Date

August 17, 2018

Dimensions

138 x 210 mm

ISBN (Soft Cover)

9781775503347

ISBN (E-Book)

9781775503606

"This book, as well as being entertaining, also presents a lot of insight into what life was like for the soldiers of the Māori contingent."

Kimihia Garcia-Grace, The Sapling

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