| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 276 pages) |
| Contents |
Beginnings -- Adoption -- Vela's beginnings -- Mulialofa -- Contest -- War correspondent -- Chronicles of Nafanua -- Arrival -- Nafanua unleashes -- All night recital -- In search -- Exemption and riddle -- Breather -- Uiga-o-Vae -- Grave by the sea -- Travel -- Nei -- Olfact -- Nightflight -- Sequence -- Last adventure -- Return -- Priest's tale -- Nafanua returns -- Final revelations |
| Summary |
Journey through the many stories and worlds of the immortal Vela, the Samoan song maker, poet, and storyteller — Vela, who was so red and ugly at birth they called him the Cooked; Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of song maker Mulialofa. Follow Vela down through centuries as he encounters the single-minded society of the Tagata-Nei and the Smellocracy of Olfact and recounts the stories of Lady Nafanua, the fearless warrior queen, before whom travelling chroniclers still bow down today. A Pacific epic, this novel stretches hundreds of years before the arrival of Papalagi to the present day and fuses the great indigenous oral traditions of storytelling and Western poetry |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed September 21, 2015) |
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In English |
| Subject |
Mythology, Samoan -- Fiction
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Mythology, Samoan.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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