Sea on Our Skin, The

Sea on Our Skin, The
Madeleine Tobert
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 336pg
17 Jan 2013 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781444734126
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Set in a tiny, traditional community on a Pacific island, this is the story of a marriage and a family, of great loves and great betrayals and how real island life is so much more than the blissful idyll Westerners see. Ioane Matate has been a traveller running away from his island since he was fifteen, restless, dissatisfied and troubled. Amalia Hoko has grown up an island child, loved and sheltered, accepting as a boundary and limitation the sea that Ioane uses as his escape route. They belong to different worlds, but when Ioane returns to the island, Amalia is the wife he chooses, loves and maltreats, with far-reaching and disturbing consequences for both them and their children. The Sea on Our Skin transports the reader to the South Pacific with an immediacy that makes the island almost tangible. This is a beguiling and lyrical story, taking its rhythms from the oral storytelling tradition of island life and the myths of the South Seas and blending them with the age-old stories of mothers and children and characters whose joy and suffering linger hauntingly in the mind of the reader.
'a quickly paced read, which drips with sumptuous imagery.' Image 'First-time novelist Madeleine Tobert has written a totally convincing fiction about a small island community, somewhere in the Pacific, still untainted by Western ways.' The Age 'Written with a graceful simplicity ... a straightforward, fable-like tale' Scotland on Sunday 'Written with warmth and humour and has plenty of unexpected turns.' Bay of Plenty Times '[Tobert's] creative skills and care with her writing shine through in this impressive first novel.' Hawkes Bay Weekend 'Extraordinary and absorbing ... recommended for a read you will find both lyrical and memorable.' Southland Times 'An intergenerational narrative of stunning lyrical quality.' Listener NZ
Originally from Scotland, Madeleine spent several years in the Pacific islands. She tried to leave but found she just couldn't. She now lives in Auckland with her Fijian husband. The Sea on Our Skin is her first book.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781444734126
Published: 17 Jan 2013
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Two Roads
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 336
Dewey: 823.92

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