Pouliuli

by Albert Wendt

Overview

What happens when an old man wakes up one morning and finds that everything around him now fills with revulsion? What happens when Faleasa Osovae, the highest ranking alii in the village of Maalaelua, feigns madness and throws away his responsibilities as a chief?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824807283
Publisher:	University of Hawaii Press, The
Publication date:	11/01/1980
Series:	Pacific Classics Series , #8
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	5.23(w) x 7.98(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

ʻO le atamai o aliʻi, le Susuga Maualaʻivao Albert Wendt ʻo se tusitala lāuiloa i le Pasefika ma ʻo se polofesa ʻua lītaea mai le Iunivesitē o 'Aukilani, Niu Sila.


Maualaivao Albert Wendt is the Pacific’s most renowned writer. He is an emeritus professor at Auckland University.

What People are Saying About This

author of Pouliuli Maualaivao Albert Wendt

Something changes when you use the language of the Sāmoan people to tell a Sāmoan story. Sia Figiel’s perceptive translation unveils an entirely different worldview through its use of language. To read the story of Faleasa in Sāmoan, almost fifty years after I first wrote it in English, is to become reacquainted with an old friend, and to realize that he has somehow grown more familiar in our time apart.

Editorial Reviews

"Few novels, Western or Third World, can reach the strength and artistic power of Pouliuli."

From the Publisher

Few novelists of the Pacific islands could be less derivative in terms of the real vision into the life and character of non-Western society. . . Even fewer novels, Western or Third World, can reach the strength and artistic power of Pouliuli.

World Literature Today

Something changes when you use the language of the Sāmoan people to tell a Sāmoan story. Sia Figiel’s perceptive translation unveils an entirely different worldview through its use of language. To read the story of Faleasa in Sāmoan, almost fifty years after I first wrote it in English, is to become reacquainted with an old friend, and to realize that he has somehow grown more familiar in our time apart.

author of Pouliuli Maualaivao Albert Wendt

Something changes when you use the language of the Sāmoan people to tell a Sāmoan story. Sia Figiel’s perceptive translation unveils an entirely different worldview through its use of language. To read the story of Faleasa in Sāmoan, almost fifty years after I first wrote it in English, is to become reacquainted with an old friend, and to realize that he has somehow grown more familiar in our time apart.

author of Pouliuli Mauala'ivao Albert Wendt

E iai se mea e sui pe ʻā ʻe faʻaaogāina le gagana a tagata Sāmoa e faʻamatala ai se tala e ʻautū iā Sāmoa. ʻO le faʻaliliuga maoaʻe a Sia Figiel ʻua tatalaina ai se vaʻaiga i le lalolagi e matuā ʻese lava talu lona tōmai i le faʻaaogāina o le gagana. ʻO loʻu toe faitauina o le tala a Faleasa i le Gagana Sāmoa i le limasefulu tausaga talu ona ʻou uluaʻi tūsia i le Gagana Peretania,ʻ ua pei ʻo se toe faʻamāsaniga ma se uō ʻua leva, ma ʻua iloa ai ʻua atili ona ʻou māsani iā te ia i lenei taimi ʻa ʻo valavala.

tusitala o le Pōuliuli Maualaʻivao Albert Wendt