Wendt, Albert,  1939- <br/><br/>
Leaves of the banyan tree / 
Albert Wendt. 
 - viii, 416 pages ;  22 cm. 
 - Talanoa .
 - Talanoa. .
<br/><br/> Cover subtitle: A novel.  Author is a New Zealander/Samoan.  "First published in New Zealand by Longman Paul Limited 1979"--Title page verso. 
<br/><br/>Book One: God, money, and success -- Book Two: Flying-fox in a freedom tree -- Book Three: Funerals and heirs. 
<br/><br/> A three-generation saga of a family in Western Samoa as it adjusts to New Zealand colonialism with its stress on material progress. The book won the 1980 New Zealand Wattie Book of the Year Award. By the author of The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man. 
<br/><br/> Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards, 1980: 1st place. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>082481584X 9780824815844 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>93041685  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Families--Samoan Islands--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Domestic fiction<br/>Samoan fiction (English)