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"White men die very suddenly in Falesá." Originally censored by its British publisher, The Beach at Falesá is a scathing critique of colonialism and economic imperialism that bravely takes on many of the 19th century's strongest taboos: miscegenation, imperialism, and economic exploit...
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Melville House Pub.,
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| Publisher Address: | Hoboken, NJ : |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The art of the novella
Melville House classics |
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"White men die very suddenly in Falesá." Originally censored by its British publisher, The Beach at Falesá is a scathing critique of colonialism and economic imperialism that bravely takes on many of the 19th century's strongest taboos: miscegenation, imperialism, and economic exploitation. It does so with a story that features a surprising and beguiling romance between an adventurous British trader and a young island girl, against a background of increasing--and mysterious--hostility. Are the native islanders plotting against the couple, or is it the other white traders? The result is a denouement that is astonishing in its violence. Told in the unadorned voice of the trader, it is a story that deftly combines the form of the exotic adventure yarn with the moral and psychological questing of great fiction. |
| Carrier Form: | 116 pages ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780976140719 0976140713 |
| Index Number: | PR5484 |
| CLC: | I561.44 |
| Call Number: | I561.44/S848-36 |