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Fiji was immediately very readable, written with flair and smoothly intertwining its character plights with the history of missionary efforts, traders, and the Fijian people. While a love story between Nathan, the American trader, and Susannah, the missionary's daughter, dominates the story, the other characters figure with their own plots. Especially, the Fijian characters and their wars, customs, and intrigues spur the story like the setting does. Rambuka the outcast is comprehended in all his
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At the public market in Suva the ‘heap’ is the unit of measure-- as in ‘I’ll take a heap of cauliflowers’. At the handicraft market ‘brain pickers’ are offered to tourists. Contemporary Fijians may not be proud of their cannibal past but they are not ashamed of it, either. They laughingly sell reproductions of the cannibal eating implements to visiting tourists. It sets a tone.
Fiji: A Novel is an old fashioned romance novel set in the mid-1800s in Fiji. It was before European missionaries conver ...more
Fiji: A Novel is an old fashioned romance novel set in the mid-1800s in Fiji. It was before European missionaries conver ...more
Dec 16, 2011
Sterling Gate Books
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