Island of Shattered DreamsHuia, 2007 - 163 pages Finally in English, Island of Shattered Dreams is the first ever novel by an indigenous Tahitian writer. In a lyrical and immensely moving style, this book combines a family saga and a doomed love story, set against the background of French Polynesia in the period leading up to the first nuclear tests. The text is highly critical of the French government, and as a result its publication in Tahiti was polarising. |
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... Metropolitan France will occupy her mind and she will recover . They do not know that Tihoti has entered the soul of their daughter and that she is devastated by the boundless love he has awakened in her . Tihoti tries for many years to ...
... Metropolitan France will occupy her mind and she will recover . They do not know that Tihoti has entered the soul of their daughter and that she is devastated by the boundless love he has awakened in her . Tihoti tries for many years to ...
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... Metropolitan France . Tematua will remember all his life what he was doing when the radio broadcast the terrible news , just as everyone will hold in their memories the way the words crystallised their movements into slow motion . Each ...
... Metropolitan France . Tematua will remember all his life what he was doing when the radio broadcast the terrible news , just as everyone will hold in their memories the way the words crystallised their movements into slow motion . Each ...
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... Metropolitan France , about music . They talk about literature , poetry , international politics . When she tries to talk about local history or politics , or their family history , they avoid the subject and she feels the same polite ...
... Metropolitan France , about music . They talk about literature , poetry , international politics . When she tries to talk about local history or politics , or their family history , they avoid the subject and she feels the same polite ...
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aito Aore atu ra beautiful belly body born bring brothers Central Training Charles Williams child colour copra daughter deep dream earth Emere and Tematua Emere's Eritapeta eternal eternal Land everything eyes father Fauna Nui feels fish foreign forget gestures goes grief half-blood happiness heart Heaven hope island Land language Laura Laura's Journal leaving light live look Lord lost Mã'ohi Maeva Maevarua magic Māmā memory Metropolitan France missile base morning mother Motherland motu never night nuclear missile ocean pa'a pain Papa Papa'ā pāreu passion placenta President-General protect Rāhiti realises Ruahine shared smiles song soul speak suffering Ta'aroa takes Tāne Tapu tears Terii Tetiare Tetuamarama Teuira there's Thou shalt Tihoti tomorrow tōna Toofa tree tumu understand vahine village waiting woman women words write young