Te Kaikaukau (The Swimmer) C10 from belief to blindness -

from belief to blindness - and how when combined with a desire to be part of something

In a city ruled by those who hunt her kind

its rules are upside-down

In 1947 Simone de Beauvoir took a road trip across America

claiming that the dark memories she's helped Mary uncover are real

Te Kaikaukau (The Swimmer) C10 from belief to blindness -New Zealands leading Mori writer decides at eighty to go back and learn his own language and write about it. Novelist, memoirist and playwright Witi Ihimaera author of Pounamu, Pounamu and The Whale Rider decided, at the age of eighty, to dive back into the water and spend a year full time at Te Wnanga Takiura, immersing himself in his own language, in te reo Mori. This book tells the story of this kaikaukau, this swimmer, and his year i te ao o te