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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... mother , who has given her everything so that she may walk proudly amongst these worthless people , and she wants to spare her further suffering . And yet she knows her life belongs to Ruahine , that she was born for Tematua . Because ...
... mother , who has given her everything so that she may walk proudly amongst these worthless people , and she wants to spare her further suffering . And yet she knows her life belongs to Ruahine , that she was born for Tematua . Because ...
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... mother's reaction to what must seem like madness . ' Māmā , I've decided to go and live on Ruahine , on the land my father gave me . I've applied for a teaching job in Maeva and I have to do three months ' training in your school ...
... mother's reaction to what must seem like madness . ' Māmā , I've decided to go and live on Ruahine , on the land my father gave me . I've applied for a teaching job in Maeva and I have to do three months ' training in your school ...
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... mother , and that he speaks flawlessly , the one that opens a strange and foreign universe to him , completely ... mother's childhood . He takes her seat at the table , loses himself in reading the same books she did , spends time ...
... mother , and that he speaks flawlessly , the one that opens a strange and foreign universe to him , completely ... mother's childhood . He takes her seat at the table , loses himself in reading the same books she did , spends time ...
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Section 2 | 13 |
Section 3 | 23 |
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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