[PDF] The Best Of Albert Wendts Short Stories eBook

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1869799844

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A collection of classic short stories from the award-winning author, Albert Wendt, acknowledged as one of the Pacific's major writers. Albert Wendt's short stories, providing a complex and profound understanding of people and the world, have been read and praised in New Zealand, the Pacific and internationally. This collection brings together his classic stories published in the Flying-Fox in a Freedom Tree and the Birth and Death of the Miracle Man and Other Stories together with exciting, previously uncollected work. '. . . his stories have the tone of timeles, and very savvy, fables.' - New York Times 'A writer of international importance.' - Landfall

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Islands of the Pacific
ISBN :

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"Salepa, deserted by hsi wife and children, out of money and luck, is determined to use his one talent on the unfortunate inhabitants of the nearby town; Fiasola, a respected head teacher, who, in his forty-ninth year, feels the Miracle Man is being born and God has deserted him; Gabriel, now middle-aged, going through his dead father's papers, with his son, conjuring up the tragic history of his family ; and the self-styled Saviour who is obsessed with ridding his village of the Bad Smell - these are some of the ... characters who people Albert Wendt's new collection of short stories about his native Samoa. ..."--Jacket.

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780824818234

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This early collection of eight short stories and a novella is vintage Wendt. Stories convey the unease of traditional island community caught up in the rapid changes of the modern world. Wendt writes with enviable directness and with deep feeling: comedy and tragedy are often hard to distinguish as his characters struggle to come to terms with their changing world.

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 1996-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780824817961

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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 simple, powerful story of cross-cultural encounter.

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 1994-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780824815844

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An epic spanning three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa, exploring on a grand scale such universal themes as greed, corruption, colonialism, exploitation, and revenge. Winner of the 1980 New Zealand Wattie Book of the Year Award, it is considered a classic work of Pacific literature.

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 1980-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780824807283

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What happens when an old man wakes up one morning and finds that everything around him now fills with revulsion? What happens when Faleasa Osovae, the highest ranking alii in the village of Maalaelua, feigns madness and throws away his responsibilities as a chief?

Author : Paul Sharrad
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 34,12 MB
Release : 2003-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719059421

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Albert Wendt is the leading writer and exponent of Pacific literature. His work is consistently different in style, politically challenging, and ranges across essays, plays, poems, stories and novels, two of which have been filmed. This book is the first full-length study of his work. There is an introduction to Pacific literature as a whole and Wendt's Samoan background. Chapters offer readings of all Wendt's major texts in chronological sequence, relating them to his essays, to literary movements of the time and to key motifs from Polynesian culture. There is an extensive bibliography of works by and about Wendt.

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780824818227

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This remarkable collection of stories offers a portrait of the fascinating and complex world of Samoa. There is Salepa, down on his luck but determined to use his one talent on the reluctant inhabitants of a nearby town; Fiasola, who feels that the Miracle Man is being born inside him; the young man who disgraces his family by stabbing a European nun; and Gabriel who, on the death of his father, relives his family's tragic past. A gifted and original writer, Albert Wendt has created a world rich in imagination and dreams, reflecting the common experience of people everywhere.

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781869690311

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The Songmaker's Chair tells of a Samoan family, the Aiga Sa Peseola, who have been in Auckland since the 1950s. Over three generations the family have intermarried with M ori and Pakeha to develop what they refer to as the Peseola Way. Central to that Way is the magnificent Polynesian exploration and settlement of the Pacific, and a songmaking tradition which Peseola Olaga, the family patriarch has inherited from his father. At the heart of the play is the love between Peseola Olaga and Malaga, his wife, and how they've struggled to give their children a good life in Aotearoa. For theirs is the Peseola Way: defiant, honest and unflinching even in the face of death.