424 pp. May 1994
paper, ISBN 978-0-8248-1584-4, $24.00
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Leaves of the Banyan Tree
by Albert Wendt
Talanoa: Contemporary Pacific Literature
Winner of the 1980 New Zealand Wattie Book of the Year Award
"A saga of three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa undermined by the changes brought about by colonialism. It is considered a classic work of Pacific literature and Wendt's best novel.
A big story in every sense of the word... peopled by the richest assortment of characters in Pacific fiction, running the gauntlet of human action, the gamut of human emotion." --New Zealand Herald"Does more than tell a whopping good story about life in Samoa around the time of Independence: it tells each of us our own story in new terms." --Manoa
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