The assistance of Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged
Flying-fox in a Freedom Tree and Other Stories first published in 1974 by Longman Paul. The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man and Other Stories first published by Viking in 1986. A ‘Genealogy of Women’ first published in Soho Square IV edited by Bill Manhire published by Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd in 1991. The ‘Don’ts of Whistling’ first published in Landfall in 1992.
A VINTAGE BOOK
published by
Random House New Zealand
18 Poland Road, Glenfield, Auckland, New Zealand
First published 1999
© 1999 Albert Wendt
The moral rights of the author have been asserted
ISBN 978 1 86941 392 7
eISBN 978 1 86979 984 7
Printed in Malaysia