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Ancestry by Albert Wendt
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
In Ancestry Albert Wendt introduces us to a cast of characters who live life balanced between the Samoan and Palagi worlds. Andrea’s husband is surprised when she gets up early one Anzac Day to take their daughter and half-Palagi grandson to the dawn parade. Later that day Andrea tells him of a cryptic ...Show more
Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater : A Writer’s Early Life (BWB Texts) by Albert Wendt
$14.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
In this BWB Text, Manualaivao Albert Wendt offers his readers a short but tantalising tour of his early life – and the influences that shaped him as a novelist and poet. The context and contours, the sights and sounds, the myths and memories of his Samoan upbringing, in the swampy Vaipe of Apia’s back ...Show more
Sons For The Return Home: (Popular Penguins) by Albert Wendt
$15.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ...Show more
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