Flying-fox in a freedom tree / by Albert Wendt.

By:

Wendt, Albert, 1939- [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Pacific paperbacksPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Longman Paul, 1974Description: 149 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0582717337
9780582717336
0582717345
9780582717343

Subject(s):

Samoa -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Genre/Form:

Online resources:

1989 Flying-fox in a freedom tree movie

Contents:

A descendant of the mountain -- The cross of soot -- Captain full, the strongest man alive who got allthing strong men got -- Pint-size devil on a thoroughbred -- A resurrection -- The coming of the Whiteman -- Declaration of Independence -- Flying-fox in a freedom tree -- Virgin-wise, the last confession of humble man who is man got religion -- Glossary.

Summary: Eight stories and a novella from a contemporary Samoan viewpoint provide a provocative study of a traditional island community coming to terms with a changing world.

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Holdings
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	FEAH25062349

Short stories.

Eight stories and a novella from a contemporary Samoan viewpoint provide a provocative study of a traditional island community coming to terms with a changing world.