{"product_id":"he-heru-a-comb-an-ornament-for-the-most-sacred-part-of-the-body-volume-7-paperback-1","title":"He Heru. a Comb: An Ornament for the Most Sacred Part of the Body Volume 7 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWhiti Hereaka\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Whiti Hereaka's new fiction collection, a single comb becomes a universe of stories.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing inspiration from a seemingly simple comb, or \u003ci\u003eheru\u003c\/i\u003e, this new text by Whiti Heraka comes in nine sections, \"a part for each tooth, and a part for each space between them.\" The parts tell stories of love, loss, and longing: tales of whales whose bones were used to make objects, of a carver creating a comb, of Maori gods and the power of women, of colonial whalers fishing their prey almost to extinction in the South Pacific, of a writer who cuts her hair and moves across worlds, weaving connections. Hereaka unfurls a stunning cosmology around the \u003ci\u003eheru\u003c\/i\u003e, combing with it through time and space to make \"stories of ocean blue, blood red, bone white.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhiti Hereaka\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist and playwright of Maori and Pakeha descent. Her iwi affiliations are Ngati Tuwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngati Whakaue, Tuhourangi, Ngati Tumatawera, and Tainui. She is the author of four novels: \u003ci\u003eThe Graphologist's Apprentice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBugs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLegacy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKurangaituku\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eLegacy \u003c\/i\u003ewon the New Zealand Children's and Young Adult Book Award for YA fiction in 2019, and \u003ci\u003eKurangaituku \u003c\/i\u003ewas awarded the 2022 Jann Medlicott Acorn Award for fiction in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2023.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 48\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 04, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48713903997177,"sku":"9783035808650","price":10.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/g6fcnKyKfY9783035808650_54c930b7-75df-4adb-a85a-0da05b24d9b6.webp?v=1784996712","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/he-heru-a-comb-an-ornament-for-the-most-sacred-part-of-the-body-volume-7-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}