Shark Dialogues
An epic saga of seven generations of one family encompasses the tumultuous history of Hawai'i as a Hawaiian woman gathers her four granddaughters together in an erotic tale of villains and dreamers, queens and revolutionaries, lepers and healers. Reprint. PW.
An epic saga of seven generations of one family encompasses the tumultuous history of Hawai'i as a Hawaiian woman gathers her four granddaughters together in an erotic tale of villains and dreamers, queens and revolutionaries, lepers and healers. Reprint. PW.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780452274587 (0452274583)
ASIN: 452274583
Publish date: August 1st 1995
Publisher: Plume
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Contemporary,
Roman,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Female Authors,
Magical Realism,
United States
I liked the first 70ish pages about the matriarch Kelonikoa, the daughter of a Tahitian chief. The writing was colorful and vibrant. Hawaiian history and geogarphy were wonderfully described. But now, Pono, Kelonikoa's great granddaughter, has come on stage. The writing is just too dramatic, too gra...
This book utterly defies categorization. It begins with a brief introduction of four girl cousins winging their way back to Pono's coffee farm in the 1990s. Then it jumps back in time and becomes historical fiction with a smattering of magical realism. Hawaii's sad and painful past is covered, wit...
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