Tales of the Tikongs
A joyride along the rocky road of island politics, love, corruption, religion, culture, dependency, and foreign aid. "A South Pacific Under Milk Wood: tragicomic sketches of an unashamedly miniscule community, portraying the manifold eccentricities and weaknesses of the inhabitants through a...
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A joyride along the rocky road of island politics, love, corruption, religion, culture, dependency, and foreign aid. "A South Pacific Under Milk Wood: tragicomic sketches of an unashamedly miniscule community, portraying
the manifold eccentricities and weaknesses of the inhabitants through a mixture of affection, mockery, satire and ribaldry." (Landfall Magazine.)
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780824815943 (0824815947)
ASIN: 824815947
Publish date: August 1st 1994
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Pages no: 104
Edition language: English
Fiji; it could also serve for Papua New Guinea depending what else I find.A very funny collection of loosely related short stories and sketches. Affectionately cynical, the author skewers both islanders (who are lazy, sly, rationalize using religion, and rationalize religion itself) and development ...
This was a fun little set of short stories about life in the South Pacific as the native islanders deal with the forces of development. Witty, quick read.