Tukua te Ao Nui kia Huri
Colum McCann, 2009
Whare Takirua
400 p.
ISBN-13: 9780812973990
whakarāpopototanga
I te ata o te mutunga o te raumati, e tū puku ana te iwi o Manhattan ki raro, e titiro whakamuri ana ki ngā Pourewa Mahanga me te kore whakapono. Ko Ākuhata 1974 tēnei, ā, kei te oma, kei te kanikani, kei te pekepeke tetahi kaihīkoi taura ngaro i waenganui i ngā pourewa, e iri ana i te hauwhā maero i runga ake i te whenua. I ngā tiriti i raro iho, ka huri te tini o ngā oranga noa hei mea whakamiharo i roto i te whakaahua whakamiharo a te kaituhi rongonui a Colum McCann mō tētahi tāone me ōna tāngata.
Tukua te Ao Nui kia Huri Ko te pukapuka tino hihiri rawa atu tēnei nā te kaituhi rongonui tae noa ki tēnei wā: he tirohanga whakamiharo mō te mamae, te ataahua, te mea ngaro, me te kupu whakaari o te Tāone o Niu Ioka i ngā tau 1970.
Ko Corrigan, he mōneka Airani taitamariki whakakeke, e whawhai ana ki ana ake rewera i a ia e noho ana i waenganui i ngā wahine kairau i waenganui o te Bronx e mura ana. Ka huihui tētahi rōpū whaea ki tētahi whare noho i Park Avenue ki te tangi i ā rātou tama i mate i Vietnam, ā, ka kitea te nui o te wehewehe i waenganui i a rātou ahakoa te pouri. Ka kitea e tētahi kaitoi taitamariki ia i te wāhi o tētahi patunga me te oma e tuku ana i tōna ake oranga kia takahuri. Ko Tillie, he kuia e toru tekau mā waru tau te pakeke, ka mahi tinihanga i te taha o tana tamahine taiohi, kua whakatau ia ehara i te mea ki te tiaki i tōna whānau engari ki te whakaatu i tōna ake uara.
Mā te raranga huatau i ēnei me ētahi atu oranga rerekē, ka ora te kōrero whakarite kaha a McCann i roto i ngā reo e kore e warewaretia o te iwi o te tāone, i honoa ohoreretia e te tumanako, te ataahua, me te "hara toi o te rautau." He pukapuka pāpori whānui, tino auaha hoki, Tukua te Ao Nui kia Huri e hopu ana i te wairua o Amerika i te wā whakawhiti, he kupu whakaari whakamiharo, ā, i muri mai, he harakore mamae. E whakanuia ana hei "tālena tino taketake" (San Francisco Chronicle), kua whakaputa te kaituhi rongonui a McCann i tētahi mahi toi rongonui o Amerika e whakaoho ana i roto i a tātou i te māramatanga ki ngā mea ka taea e te pukapuka te whakatutuki, te aro atu, me te whakaora anō hoki.Mai i te kaiwhakaputa.)