This is an auction for THE ADVENTURES OF VELA by Albert Wendt.

"Journey through the many stories and worlds of the immortal Vela - Vela, so red and ugly at birth they called him the Cooked; Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of song maker Mulialofa the Boneman. Follow him down through the centuries on his travels, encountering the single-minded society of the Tagatanei and the Smellocracy of Olfact. Accompany him, too, as he recounts the stories of Lady Nafanua, the fearsome warrior queen, before whose powers Palagi priests and travelling chroniclers still bow down today."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Emeritus Prof. Maualaivao Albert Wendt ONZ CNZM (born 1939 in Apia, Samoa) is Professor of English at the University of Auckland, and an acclaimed Samoan-born Novelist and Poet. He has been an influential figure in New Zealand and Pacific literature since the 1970s. After graduating with his Masters degree from Victoria University, Wendt returned home to Samoa in 1965 to teach at Samoa College, Wendt moved to Suva and became a lecturer at the University of the South Pacific. Wendt has written several novels, collections of short stories and poetry. Two of his books - Sons for the Return Home and Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree - have been made into feature films. Leaves of the Banyan Tree, his third novel, won the New Zealand Book of the Year Award in 1980. In 1988 he took up a professorship of Pacific studies at the University of Auckland. His novel ‘Ola’ was awarded the regional Asia-Pacific Commonwealth Writer’s Award in 1992. He became the visiting Professor of Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa in 1999.

Paperback 2009.

276 pages.

Near new condition.

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