Pouliuli / Albert Wendt.

By:

Wendt, Albert, 1939- [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Longman Paul, 1977Description: 147 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0582717531
9780582717534
058271754X
9780582717541

Subject(s):

Samoa -- Fiction

Genre/Form:

Samoan fiction (English)

Summary: "What happens when an old man wakes up one morning and finds 'that everything and everybody ... that had given meaning to his existence' now fills him with revulsion; that he despises 'everything he had been, had become, had achieved?' What happens when that man is Faleasa Osovae, the most powerful alii in the village of Malaelua? What happens to his aiga and his village, to his lifelong friend, Laaumatua Lemigao - 'Clubfoot', and to himself when 'he decides he must be free, must make that leap into pouliuli, the darkness'? ..."--Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Texts - cam	TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection	PAC 823.9614 WEN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	FEAH25062341

"What happens when an old man wakes up one morning and finds 'that everything and everybody ... that had given meaning to his existence' now fills him with revulsion; that he despises 'everything he had been, had become, had achieved?' What happens when that man is Faleasa Osovae, the most powerful alii in the village of Malaelua? What happens to his aiga and his village, to his lifelong friend, Laaumatua Lemigao - 'Clubfoot', and to himself when 'he decides he must be free, must make that leap into pouliuli, the darkness'? ..."--Back cover.