Nights in the Gardens of Spain
  • Published: 1 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780143203940
  • Imprint: Raupo
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $30.00

Nights in the Gardens of Spain

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David Munro has everything a man could want - a beautiful wife, two adoring daughters, a top academic position and a circle of devoted friends. But he also has another life, lived mainly at night and frequently in what he comes to know as 'The Gardens of Spain', the places where gay and bisexual men meet. Now he must choose which of these two lives to follow . . .
 
Now in its fourth edition, Nights in the Gardens of Spain takes us along the precarious divide between sexuality and social mores, exploring dilemmas of contemporary gay culture with anger, laughter, sensitivity and honesty.
 
'Ihimaera's best book yet.'
-Evening Post
  • Published: 1 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780143203940
  • Imprint: Raupo
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $30.00
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About the author

Witi Ihimaera



Three-time winner of the Wattie/Montana Book of the Year award, Katherine Mansfield fellow and playwright Witi Ihimaera is one of New Zealand’s most prolific and accomplished writers. Witi’s first novel, Tangi, won the Wattie Book of the Year Award in 1974, a feat he repeated with The Matriarch in 1986. His celebrated novel Bulibasha, King of the Gypsies, now adapted as the film Mahana, won the Montana Book of the Year award in 1995. Witi’s other novels and short story collections include The Whale Rider (also adapted as an internationally successful film); Dream Swimmer (sequel to the award-winning The Matriarch); Pounamu, Pounamu and Nights In The Gardens of Spain. In 2015 he published the first volume of his autobiography, Maori Boy.
 

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Navigating the Stars
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White Lies
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Praise for Nights in the Gardens of Spain

'The storyline is impeccable . . . the drama tense and sustained.'

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-The Press

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'Complex, clever . . . and thoroughly randy.'

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-Quote Unquote

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Writing about the Māori world, both rural and urban, often knocking into the Pākehā status quo, Witi Ihimaera’s writing has always offered a broader view of what New Zealand literature could be – should be – about.