num_pages: 256
description: The place is Bastion Point.The time is May 1978.Maori Land Rights protestors are about to be evicted after squatting on the Point for months.Emma is on the periphery, taking her first slow steps towards accepting the Maori in her.A visit to Bastion Point triggers memories of her childhood. Her mixed Maori/Yugoslav blood has always made her feel out of place - her Maori relatives call her "the Pakeha bastard" and her Yugoslav relatives didn't know she existed.This novel traces her life through from her traumatic childhood and teenage years to her adult strivings to be accepted as white and middle-class, until the final crisis point in her life when, as her marriage is dissolving and her sense of self identity is crumbling, she comes to terms with her dual heritage.Cast Two Shadows is a strong and compelling novel, a passionate portrayal of one woman's life from childhood to middle age, and one of the first novels to deal honestly with the complex question of mixed Pakeha/Maori ancestry.
language: English
title: Cast two shadows
titlecomplete: Cast two shadows
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Hodder and Stoughton