Where We Once Belonged

Fiction. A bestseller in New Zealand and winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Prize, Sia Figiel's debut marks the first time a novel by a Samoan woman has been published in the United States. Figiel uses the traditional Samoan storytelling form of su'ifefiloi to talk back to Western anthropological studies on Samoan women and culture. Told in a series of linked episodes, this powerful and highly original narrative follows thirteen-year-old Alofa Filiga as she navigates the mores and restrictions of her village and comes to terms with her own search for identity. A story of Samoan PUBERTY BLUES, in which Gauguin is dead but Elvis lives on -- Vogue Australia. A storytelling triumph -- Elle Australia.

• They Who Do Not Grieve
• Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Sun Tracks)
• The Bone People: A Novel
• Tales of the Tikongs
• Paradise (Vintage International)
• Mother/Land (Earthworks Series)
• So Far from God: A Novel
• The Whale Rider
• Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Wordsworth Classics)
• Leaves of the Banyan Tree (Talanoa: Contemporary Pacific Literature)