num_pages: 128
description: Originally censored by its British publisher, The Beach at Falesá is a scathing critique of colonialism and economic imperialism that bravely takes on many of the 19th Century’ s strongest taboos: miscegenation, imperialism, and economic exploitation. It does so with a story that features a surprising and beguiling romance between an adventurous British trader and a young island girl, against a background of increasing—and mysterious—hostility. Are the native islanders plotting against the couple, or is it the other white traders? The result is a denouement that is astonishing in its violence. Told in the unadorned voice of the trader, it is a story that deftly combines the form of the exotic adventure yarn with the moral and psychological questing of great fiction.
language: English
title: The Beach of Falesá
titlecomplete: The Beach of Falesá
genres: Literature, Classics, Adventure, Novels, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, Novella
ratings_count: 674
publisher: Melville House