He Heru. a Comb : An Ornament for the Most Sacred Part of the Body
by Whiti Hereaka
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He Heru. a Comb : An Ornament for the Most Sacred Part of the Body, Paperback by Hereaka, Whiti, ISBN 3035808651, ISBN-13 9783035808650, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In Whiti Hereaka’s new fiction collection, a single comb becomes a universe of stories. Drawing inspiration from a seemingly simple comb, or heru, 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 heru, combing with it through time and space to make “stories of ocean blue, blood red, bone white.”
- Publisher: Diaphanes
- Year: 2026
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN: 9783035808650
- Condition: Fine
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