â€œCompares with Toni Morrison.â€â€”Glamour Â Beginning with the fateful meeting of a nineteenth-century Yankee sailor and the runaway daughter of a Tahitian

Shark Dialogues

â€œCompares with Toni Morrison.â€â€”Glamour
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Beginning with the fateful meeting of a nineteenth-century Yankee sailor and the runaway daughter of a Tahitian chief, and sweeping over a century and a half of passionate, turbulent Hawaiian history, Shark Dialogues takes its place as the first novel to do justice to the rich heritage and cruel conflicts of the beautiful and beleaguered islands and their people. Surreal, provocative, erotic, magical, meaningful, and supremely wise, it is a tale of islanders and invaders, of victors and victims, of queens and whores, of lepers and healers. And at its center are Pono, the magnificent pure-blooded matriarch and seer, and her four mixed-blood granddaughters seeking to come to terms with the contradictions of their ancestries and the hungers of their hearts. Their loves, their hates, the bonds joining them, and the furies possessing them are interwoven with ancient legends and lore of the islands whose past offers their salvation and whose future is their fate. Kiana Davenport has written a major contribution to the literature of the Pacific Rimâ€”a great reading experience both brilliantly contemporary in its form and timeless in its illumination.
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â€œA giant, image-fevered, luxuriant saga of a Hawaiian familyâ€¦ powerful, memorable, intoxicating.â€â€”Kirkus Reviews
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â€œComplex, resonantâ€¦ handles the sweep of history and the nuance of the personal equally wellâ€¦ Sensuous.â€â€”San Francisco Chronicle
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Plume
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780452274587
ReleaseDate 1995-08-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780452274587

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Plume
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780452274587
ReleaseDate	1995-08-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780452274587

Shark Dialogues

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