入圍2024年亞馬遜加拿大首部小說獎，《Tauhou》由毛利與科斯特薩利希族裔作家Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall創作，是一部融合詩意、記憶與神話的小說，探討原住民家庭、女性身分與後殖民創傷。故事架構創新，將重構的溫哥華島與紐西蘭並置於同一片海洋中，描繪跨文化家族如何在失落與幽靈中尋找認同。每章皆如寓言般呈現，有博物館中守護文物的怪物、有女性挖掘出自己的墳墓。這是一部關於回歸、修復與土地連結的小說，寫給祖先，也寫給當代所有正在尋找歸屬的人。Finalist, 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardDear grandmother, I am writing this song, over and over again, for you. I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land. Tauhou is an inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. This innovative hybrid novel envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa New Zealand that sit side by side in the ocean.Each chapter is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum, a woman uncovers her own grave, another woman remembers her estranged father. On rainfores
