by Albert Wendt.
This book allowes the reader to see what daily life was like in a Samoan village (in the days when New Zealand still ruled), get a sense of Samoan cultural expectations and norms that pit their vestigial belief system against the pernicious advance of the modern day, including the contagion of consumerism—through the lens of a well—written and very entertaining story.
Maualaivao Albert Wendt CNZM is an esteemed writer who has been an influential figure in the development of New Zealand and Pacific writing since the 1970s. His verse novel The Adventures of Vela won the Commonwealth Writers' regional prize and his co-edited anthology Whetu Moana won the Montana NZ Book Award for Reference & Anthology.
University of Hawaii Press; Pacific Classics Edition. 1980. Paperback.
Like new, very nice and clean book.