| Author | Maurice Shadbolt |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton (UK) & W.W. Norton (USA) |
Publication date | 1 February 1987 |
| Publication place | New Zealand |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 384 pp (hardback edition) |
| ISBN | 0-340-39931-7 (hardback); 0-87923-753-8 (paper) |
| OCLC | 14134229 |
Season of the Jew is an historical novel by Maurice Shadbolt, published in 1987. Set in mid-nineteenth-century New Zealand, it is a semi-fictionalized account of the story of the Māori leader Te Kooti, told from the perspective of one of his pursuers, an officer in the colonial army.[1]