Title: The sea on our skin
Description: The Sea on Our Skin is set on an island in the South Pacific, remote from everywhere and everything, including modern life. Outwardly a paradise, the small island community revolves around family with their traditional lives defined by the sea: some are securely held by it while others use it as a means of escape. Ioane and Amalia are opposites in every way - Amalia, happy to be an island wife, and her husband Ioane, always compelled to leave. Their stories, both painful and loving, and the stories of their children are full of the rhythms of island life and the smell and sound of the sea as paradise begins to change ...
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, general, Pacific area, fiction
Places: Pacific Area