(*) Face in the Water and Owls
A novel from this country is structured in twelve sections, the first of which has twelve chapters, the second of which has eleven chapters, and so on. In a novel from this country, Istina is, like the author herself, discharged a day before a scheduled lobotomy. That novel from here is part of one author's attempt to come to terms with her diagnosed schizophrenia, through "therapeutic" writing. In a recent novel from this country, twelve people each associated with a sign of the zodiac come together to solve the mystery of the disappearance of a gold miner. (*) Face in the Water and Owls Don't Cry are from this country, which also produced a novel in which Kahu retrieves a stone from the sea, but Koro resists granting the title tribal status to her, because she is a girl. Both Janet Frame and Eleanor Catton, youngest winner of the Booker Prize for The Luminaries, hail from, for 10 points, what country in which The Whale Rider was written Witi Ihimaera?
A novel from this country is structured in twelve sections, the first of which has twelve chapters, the second of which has eleven chapters, and so on.
New Zealand [or Aotearoa] 