Set in a tiny, traditional community on a Pacific island, this is the story of a marriage and a family, of great loves and great betrayals and how real island life is so much more than the blissful idyll Westerners see. Ioane Matate has been a traveller running away from his island since he was fifteen, restless, dissatisfied and troubled. Amalia Hoko has grown up an island child, loved and sheltered, accepting as a boundary and limitation the sea that Ioane uses as his escape route. They belong to different worlds, but when Ioane returns to the island, Amalia is the wife he chooses, loves and maltreats, with far-reaching and disturbing consequences for both them and their children. The Sea on Our Skin transports the reader to the South Pacific with an immediacy that makes the island almost tangible.
'a quickly paced read, which drips with sumptuous imagery.' -- Image
Title: The Sea on Our Skin
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Madeleine Tobert
ISBN 13: 9781444734119
ISBN 10: 1444734113
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Imprint: Two Roads
Publication Date: 31/01/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification:
823.92
(DC23)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Height: 233mm
Width: 156mm
Thickness: 25mm
Weight: 450g