Motu Tapu: Stories of the South Pacific
Author(s): Graeme Lay
A Cook Islands' dancer learns a lesson in economic survival in Auckland; a New Zealand academic encounters the spirit of a long-dead poet at Robert Louis Stevenson's grave in Samoa; an Indian teenager fights for her life in Ponsonby; the son of a Jewish refugee falls victim to anti-Semitism in God's Own County; an Englishman in Aotearoa violates tapu and pays the price. The diverse and often desperate characters in this strongly multicultural collection share one main feature: they are all Pacific Islanders, a region whose sublime physical beauty can camouflage, but not conceal, its cultural collisions and social tensions.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Polynesian Press
- : Polynesian Press
- : 0.6
- : 01 May 1991
- : 210mm X 130mm
- : New Zealand
- : 10 May 1991
- : books
Special Fields
- : Graeme Lay
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823
- : 91137635
- : 172