The adventures of Vela
By: Albert Wendt.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press; University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780824834203
Subjects: Mythology, Samoan -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "Journey through the many stories and worlds of the immortal Vela, the Samoan song maker, poet, and storyteller - Vela, who was 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. Follow Vela down through centuries as he encounters the single-minded society of the Tagata-Nei and the Smellocracy of Olfact and recounts the stories of Lady Nafanua, the fearless warrior queen, before whom travelling chroniclers still bow down today." "This novel stretches from hundreds of years before the arrival of Papalagi to the present day and fuses the great indigenous oral traditions of storytelling and Western poetry." --Book Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: Adoption; title: Vela's beginnings; title: Mulialofa; title: Contest; title: War correspondent; title: Chronicles of Nafanua; title: Arrival; title: Nafanua unleashes; title: All night recital; title: In search; title: Exemption and riddle; title: Breather; title: Uiga-o-Vae; title: Grave by the sea; title: Travel; title: Nei; title: Olfact; title: Nightflight; title: Sequence; title: Last adventure; title: Return; title: Priest's tale; title: Nafanua returns; title: Final revelations.