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题名/责任者:

Shark dialogues / Kiana Davenport.

出版发行项:

New York : Plume, 1995.

ISBN:

9780452274587

载体形态项:

492 pages ; 23 cm

个人责任者:

Kiana Davenport, author.

论题主题:

Women-Hawaii-Fiction.

中图法分类号:

Q959

摘要附注:

Beginning with the fateful meeting of a nineteenth-century Yankee sailor and the runaway daughter of a Tahitian chief, and sweeping over a century and a half of passionate, turbulent Hawaiian history, Shark Dialogues takes its place as the first novel to do justice to the rich heritage and cruel conflicts of the beautiful and beleaguered islands and their people. Surreal, provocative, erotic, magical, meaningful, and supremely wise, it is a tale of islanders and invaders, of victors and victims, of queens and whores, of lepers and healers. And at its center are Pono, the magnificent pure-blooded matriarch and seer, and her four mixed-blood granddaughters seeking to come to terms with the contradictions of their ancestries and the hungers of their hearts. Their loves, their hates, the bonds joining them, and the furies possessing them are interwoven with ancient legends and lore of the islands whose past offers their salvation and whose future is their fate. Kiana Davenport has written a major contribution to the literature of the Pacific Rima great reading experience both brilliantly contemporary in its form and timeless in its illumination. The author is of mixed Hawaiian and Anglo-American descent.

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