Kiwi Books to Films: The Silent One
New Zealand Children's writer, Joy Cowley will be supporting the New Zealand as Guest of Honour programme at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Her book Snake and Lizard (deutscher Titel: Schlange und Eidechs) was published in Germany this year. In 1984 her novel The Silent One, was made into a film.
The Silent One is a mythological children's drama about the relationship between a deaf mute boy and a rare white turtle. The boy's differences lead to suspicion from his Rarotongan village. When the village suffers drought, and then a devastating storm, the boy is blamed. A turtle, also considered an ill omen, befriends the boy. They are hunted and and ultimately ostracised.
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