Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

Kakimoto, Megan Kamalei


Engels | 03-07-2024 | 272 pagina's

9781803510095

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This wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonisation. This is a Hawai'i where unruly sexuality and generational memory overflow the postcard image of paradise and the boundaries of the real, where the superstitions born of the islands take on the weight of truth. A childhood encounter with a wild pua'a (pig) on the haunted Pali highway portends one young woman's fraught relationship with her pregnant body.

An elderly widow begins seeing her deceased lover in a giant flower. A kanaka writer, mid-manuscript, feels her raw pages quaking and knocking in the briefcase. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare is both a fierce love letter to Hawaiian identity and mythology, and a searing dispatch from an occupied territory threatening to erupt with violent secrets.

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EAN :9781803510095
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Uitgever :Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V.
Publicatie datum :  03-07-2024
Uitvoering :Paperback / softback
Taal/Talen : Engels
Status :Te bestellen
Aantal pagina's :272