Author: Albert Wendt
Title: Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater
Description: BWB Texts 2015 Paperback, 144pp. 'Albert Wendt recalls his boyhood in the Vaipe, a suburb of Apia in Samoa, just metres from the local cinema, and his life-changing schooling as a scholarship student at an initially foreign New Plymouth Boys' High School. Wendt also explores his fascination with traditional pre-Christian Samoan religion, banned by the missionaries, and while he laments its decline and partial disappearance, he also celebrates its richness and depth.'. (ISBN: 9780908321223). Good.

Keywords: Commentary, NZ, Non-Fiction9780908321223 9780908321223


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