TY - BOOK AU - Saunana,John S TI - The alternative PY - 1980/// CY - Honiara [Solomon Islands] PB - University of the South Pacific Solomon Islands Centre in association with the South Pacific Creative Arts Society and the Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific KW - Solomon Islands KW - Fiction KW - Solomon Islands fiction (English) N1 - A novel N2 - The story of Maduru. We first meet Maduru as a boy. He is intelligent, as he manages to get, first, a place in the school on the neighbouring island and then a place in the only secondary school in the Solomon Islands. He is also, by his own account, very good at football. But Maduru is not a very nice person. He is arrogant, rude, sexist and selfish ER -