Freelove: a novel - Softcover

Figiel, Sia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982253559 ISBN 13: 9780982253557

Publisher: Loihi Press, 2016

Synopsis

It is 1985 in Nu‘uolemanusa/Village of the Sacred Owl, Western Samoa. Madonna’s Like a Virgin rules the airwaves. Brilliant and inquisitive high school student and Star Trek fanatic, 17 ½ year old Inosia Alofafua Afatasi, is sent by her mother to the capital, Apia, to buy three giant white threads. While she waits at the bus-stop, Mr. Ioane Viliamu, her teacher of Science and Mathematics and recent graduate of the University of Papua New Guinea and the pastor’s eldest son, in turn, her spiritual brother, stops to offer her a ride in his red pick-up truck. Should she wait for the bus? Or should she accept the ride?

About this title

About the Author:

Sia Figiel's groundbreaking first novel, where we once belonged, won the prestigious 1997 Commonwealth Writer's Prize, Best First Book for the South East Asia - South Pacific region. Other notable works: The Girl in the Moon Circle, They Who Do Not Grieve and Freelove. Ms. Figiel also appeared on the amplified poetry CD TERENESIA with scholar and poet Teresia Teaiwa. She is also the author of the prose-poetry collection: To A Young Artist in Contemplation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Loihi Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0982253559
• ISBN 13: 9780982253557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240