They Who Do Not Grieve
Figiel, Sia
ISBN 10: 1885030339 ISBN 13: 9781885030337
Published by Muae Publishing, Incorporated, 2003
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Synopsis:
Sia Figiel's powerful, poetic skills weave together the voices of three generations of women from two Samoan families. Their dream worlds and realities intermingle, just as the histories of each generation run through the next. At the center of the novel is the Samoan woman's tattoo, the malu, believed to be brought from Fiji by Siamese twins. The ghosts of the twins watch over the women whose lives are stained by an unfinished tattoo. The shame and grief of not completing the tattoo ceremony go hand in hand with the shame and grief of illicit love and broken promises.
Review:
"Powerful and exhilarating" (The Times)
"Poetic, energetic, swirling with wild sweeps of feeling, this is powerful and uninhibited writing which unleashes a world dense with ghosts, taboos, deceptions and violence-Bracing and exhilarating" (The Times)
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Bibliographic Details
Title: They Who Do Not Grieve
Publisher: Muae Publishing, Incorporated
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Edition: 1 Edition.