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Pacific Island Fiction

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9781921145773

Tiare : The Husband Who Didn't Deserve His Wife and everything that happened next

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NZ$ 27.00 each

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Author: Celestine Hitiura Vaite

Published by: Penguin Books Ltd

The word on the coconut radio, so Cousin Mori reports, is that the family is calling Pito Tehana a big zero. His lovely wife Materena is now a big success, the number one radio star in Tahiti and she hasn't even turned into a show-off.

First published 2006.

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ISBN / ISSN:

9781869415808

Mango's Kiss

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NZ$ 37.00 each

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Author: Albert Wendt

Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd

Since the 1960s, Albert Wendt has created a profound and fabulous Pacific world that is uniquely his own. A fictional world focused on Samoa and New Zealand and reaching out to the centres of the world, a world inhabited by the richest menagerie of characters in Pacific fiction, characters whose lives and stories reflect our own complex depths.

First published 2003.

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ISBN / ISSN:

9781869692544

Niu Voices : Contemporary Pacific Fiction

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NZ$ 25.00 each

Paperback

Author: Various

Published by: Huia Publishers

A fascinating collection of poetry, short stories and novel extracts by Pacific writers, mostly based in New Zealand. They span the streets and sands of the diverse South Pacific, and their themes include love, relationships and identity. Among the authors are strong women, new and notable names such as Tusiata Avia, Selina Marsh, Sia Figiel and Karlo Mila.

First published November 2006.

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ISBN / ISSN:

9781921145018

Tiare

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NZ$ 35.00 each

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Author: Celestine Hitiura Vaite

Published by: The Text Publishing Company Pty Ltd

Pito is a big zéro. He won’t even treat his wife Materena to a restaurant meal to celebrate her radio success, and nobody would be surprised if she traded him in. But there’s more to Pita than meets the eye! Tiare is Vaite’s third light but insightful novel featuring these Tahitian characters (the others are Breadfruit and Frangipani). “She has delivered another great story in Tiare.” — Pacific Magazine.
First published 2006.

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ISBN / ISSN:

9781921145025

Breadfruit : The Drunken Marriage Proposal and Everything that Happened Next(Out of Print)

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NZ$ 27.00 each

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Author: Celestine Hitiura Vaite

Published by: text publishing

Materena lives with Pito and their three kids in Faa'a PK55, behind the petrol station, and life is good. Until one day Pito comes home drunk and asks Materena to marry him.

Becoming a madame, eh?
Materena wouldn't mind that . . .
But as she starts rounding up the relatives to organise everything she realises there's more to getting married than meets the eye. And that includes reminding the groom that he proposed in the first place.
First published 2000.

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ISBN / ISSN:

9781921145100

Frangipani :The Mother Whose Daughter Amazed Her and Everything That Happened Next

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NZ$ 27.00 each

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Author: Celestine Hitiura Vaite

Published by: text publishing

Aue, teenagers! Materena is just about ready to throw her daughter Leilani into the street. 'It doesn't matter what I do,' she confides to Mama Teta. 'It's always the wrong thing. I'm going taravana!'
And if that wasn't enough, now there's a boy on the horizon.
First published 2004.

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ISBN / ISSN:

9781869401122

Nuanua : An Anthology of Pacific Writing in English ..

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NZ$ 50.00 each

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Author: Albert Wendt (ed)

Published by: Auckland University Press

Reprinted May 2007.

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