Bruised Hibiscus
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
Published: March 4, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780345451095
Subjects: Literary; Fiction / Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General; Literature: Classics
First sentence: It didn't take long for the news to beat through the bamboo and the mangrove bush off the shore from Freeman's Bay in Otahiti, to spread like wildfire once the fisherman, his brown skin turned tar black by the sun, and leathered by the salt in the wind and sea, staggered into the Oropouche Police Station.