Adventures of Vela, The

Adventures of Vela, The
Albert Wendt
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Paperback
h210 x 138mm - 250pg
15 May 2009 NZ
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9781869693633
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Journey through the many stories and worlds of the immortal Vela - Vela, so red and ugly at birth they called him the Cooked; Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of song maker Mulialofa the Boneman. Follow him down through the centuries on his travels, encountering the single-minded society of the Tagatanei and the Smellocracy of Olfact. Accompany him, too, as he recounts the stories of Lady Nafanua, the fearsome warrior queen, before whose powers Palagi priests and travelling chroniclers still bow down today.
Albert Wendt is an acclaimed Samoan-born novelist who has been an influential figure in the developments that have shaped New Zealand and Pacific literature since the 1970s, writing numerous works of fiction and several volumes of poetry, and editing notable anthologies of Pacific literature. He is Emeritus Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland where his particular research interests are new literatures in English, especially Maori and Pacific fiction and poetry and Pacific art and history.
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ISBN-13: 9781869693633
Published: 15 May 2009
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Huia Publishers
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 250
Dewey: 823.2

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