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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... gestures , the traditional gestures of their Fathers , the gestures of their world . He sings to her the love of their Land , bringing back to life with his words the forgotten memories of those who , long before them , lived , loved ...
... gestures , the traditional gestures of their Fathers , the gestures of their world . He sings to her the love of their Land , bringing back to life with his words the forgotten memories of those who , long before them , lived , loved ...
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... gestures he has never made before , is cradled in the magic of the eternal words he has never heard or spoken before ... gesture , every word was passed down from their Fathers . And so in the darkness of Maeva , in a long oral ...
... gestures he has never made before , is cradled in the magic of the eternal words he has never heard or spoken before ... gesture , every word was passed down from their Fathers . And so in the darkness of Maeva , in a long oral ...
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... gestures reveal what a person really is . Laura doesn't realise that at the church service and for several days ... gesture , the Chinese woman pulls out a cardboard carton and places it on the counter . ' Choose what you wants ...
... gestures reveal what a person really is . Laura doesn't realise that at the church service and for several days ... gesture , the Chinese woman pulls out a cardboard carton and places it on the counter . ' Choose what you wants ...
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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