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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Univ of Hawaii Pr
Publication date October 31, 2009
Pages 288
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781869693633
ISBN-10 1869693639
Original list price $26.00
Other format details university press
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"We are the remembered cord that stretches across the abyss of all that we’ve forgotten," sang Vela.

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.



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1 new edition from Univ of Hawaii Pr (October 31, 2009)
9780824834203 | details & prices | 276 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.72 lbs | List price $26.00
About: "We are the remembered cord that stretches across the abyss of all that we’ve forgotten," sang Vela.
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