The story of life in Malaefou, a village in Samoa, told through the eyes of a 13 year-old girl, Alofa. It focuses on Alofa's experience of growing up in Malaefou and her quest for identity within a culture caught between tradition and change. Alofa's story also becomes the story of the island.
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Thirteen-year-old Alofa Filiga struggles to come to terms with womanhood, her search for identity, and the restrictions of life in her Samoan village.
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Von Ein Kunde
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This book is nice to read and gives a good impression of Samoan everyday life. It all rings true, which is at least partly due to the Samoan words scattered throughout the English text.
However, even though the book contains some descriptions and scenes I liked very much, it all seems a bit arbitrary. It is hard to say what it is really about. The coming-of-age of a Samoan girl, maybe (and what a wonderful idea, after everything Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman have written on this subject), but it also contains a part about the girl's mother, and another one about a crazy woman who went away a student and came back a hippie, and tries to convince everyone to go back to the old ways.
Von Ein Kunde
Format:Taschenbuch
This book really let me into the life of the character. It is undeniably realistic. As a student, I am planning on studying in Samoa for a semsester and this book did a great job with portraying yet another perspective on the Samoan way of life. And the perspective of a teenage girl going through adolescent confusion is always fascinating!
Von tamamanono
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Excellent book-a must read and an outstanding book for university class romms. Ms. Figiel, while touching artfully on the specifics of Samoan life, has illuminated the Human Condition with warmth and clarity.
An outstanding treatment of women, class, sexuality and ethinicity. The book is a delight to read--an amazing lyric voice for such a young writer--and a book to be shared.
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A wonderful female coming of age story
This is a powerful and moving evocation of Samoan culture and the experience of being a young woman coming of age in that culture. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. März 2000 von Hera Cook
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An above-average first novel
While this is a fine first effort, it's not the great Samoan novel that the other reviewers seem to think it is. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 20. Januar 2000 veröffentlicht
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Fabulous!
This book is beautifully written! Sia Figiel's style is unique and fresh. The issues addressed in this book were universal but the Samoan flare was also what made this novel... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
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