Frangipani

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Description

Love, life, families…Tahitian style!Materena Mahi, champion professional cleaner and best listener in all of Tahiti, is usually the one solving the problems. But right now she’s that close to throwing her daughter Leilani into the street. ‘It doesn’t matter what I do,’ she confides to Mama Teta, to Cousin Rita, to Mama Loana and to the Virgin Mary Understanding Woman, ‘it’s always the wrong thing. I’m going taravana!’ And if that wasn’t enough there’s a boy on the horizon. Or so the relatives are saying.When everything around her is changing, and the traditional Tahitian rules no longer seem to be enough, Materena realises it’s going to take more than the Welcome into Womanhood talk to deal with the next generation of Mahi women…

Additional information

Weight 0.245 kg
Dimensions 2.2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

352

Publisher

Year Published

2006-7-6

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099490080

About The Author

Célestine Hitiura Vaite was born in Tahiti. The daughter of a Tahitian mother and a French father who went back to his country after military service, she grew up in her big extended family in Faa'a-Tahiti, where storytelling was part of the every day life and women overcame obstacles with gusto and humour. Frangipani was also shortlisted for the 2005 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Célestine now lives with her family on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.

A feast … bursting with vitality and charm

Other text

A fond evocation of Tahitian life. Vaite now lives far from her homeland … but with Frangipani she conjures up more than a taste of her island upbringing

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