The Charm Buyers / / Lillian Howan.
The Charm Buyers describes extraordinary beauty and turbulent change: Tahiti during the last years of French nuclear testing in the Pacific in the 1990s.Marc Antoine Chen, the troubled heir of black pearl cultivators, narrates his journey through a labyrinth of elusive truths. As a child, Marc lives...
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Howan, Lillian, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Charm Buyers / Lillian Howan. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (280 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Major Characters -- PART ONE. Islands -- PART TWO. Ghosts -- PART THREE. The Charm -- PART FOUR. Chessboard -- PART FIVE. Huahine -- PART SIX. Night -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Charm Buyers describes extraordinary beauty and turbulent change: Tahiti during the last years of French nuclear testing in the Pacific in the 1990s.Marc Antoine Chen, the troubled heir of black pearl cultivators, narrates his journey through a labyrinth of elusive truths. As a child, Marc lives in a dreamlike world with his great-grandmother A-tai and her stories of a semi-nomadic Hakka culture that no longer exists. The Hakka, originally brought from China to Tahiti to work in cotton in the nineteenth century, settled in communities throughout the South Pacific.On the verge of adulthood, Marc falls in love with the calm and confident Marie-Laure Li, but when she leaves to study in France, Marc drifts, becoming the lover of the enigmatic painter Aurore du Chatelet. Years later, Marie-Laure returns, suffering from a debilitating malady-one of many illnesses surfacing in the wake of nuclear testing-and Marc is offered a strange, magical proposal in exchange for the life of his once beloved.A supernatural, shamanic reality exists together with the traditions of the Hakka, set against the background of the French colonial past and the Ma'ohi struggle for independence. The Charm Buyers presents a world in transition and its people-black pearl cultivators, artists, taro farmers, politicians, smugglers, and shamans. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh French Polynesia. French colonialism. Hakka. Huahine. Papeete. Tahiti. bildungsroman. black pearls. nuclear testing. shamanism. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017 9783110719543 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2017 9783110540550 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE ENGLISH 2017 9783110625264 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2017 9783110548198 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110638936 print 9780824858520 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824858643 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824858643 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824858643/original |
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