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Sons for the Return Home (Pop Penguinz)

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Sons for the Return Home (Pop Penguinz)

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ISBN: 9780143206019
Title: Sons for the Return Home (Pop Penguinz)
Author: WENDT ALBERT

Samoan-born Albert Wendt was working as a teacher in Samoa when he wrote the autobiographical Sons for the Return Home, first published in 1973. It is the story of a cross-racial romance between a Samoan student at Auckland University, the son of migrant parents, and the daughter of a wealthy palagi family. It was an instant bestseller and was later made into a successful movie.

The Oxford Companion of History writes of his first novel, Sons For the Return Home- 'Hard-hitting in its descriptions of racism, frank in its evocation of youthful sexuality, even-handed but also harsh and tender in its vision of flawed humanity, the novel was immediately recognised as important, not only for its subject material but because of its success in fusing literary styles with colloquial speech and oral narratives.' It asserts- 'Wendt's later fiction has continued to be culturally and technically mixed. He has always been a versatile international writer as well as a committedly Pacific one.'

Format: Paperback
Price: $16.00