num_pages: 224
description: Samoan-born Albert Wendt was working as a teacher in Samoa when he wrote the autobiographical Sons for the Return Home, first published in 1973. It is the story of a cross-racial romance between a Samoan student at Auckland University, the son of migrant parents, and the daughter of a wealthy palagi family. It was an instant bestseller and was later made into a successful movie.
language: English
title: Sons for the Return Home
titlecomplete: Sons for the Return Home
genres: 20th Century, Novels, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Romance
ratings_count: 283
publisher: University of Hawaii Press