Author: Albert Wendt

Published: 1973

Publisher: University Of Hawaii Press

Format: Paperback

Pages: 218

Suitable: Secondary

Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. She is a white New Zealander, blonde, outgoing, daughter of a successful businessman; he is the son of xenophobic Somoan immigrants to New Zealand, dark, reticent and bitter about his tenuous position as a "coconut islander" in white society. Through this novel Albert Wendt is able to reveal the hypocrisy of racial pride.