A story of star-crossed lovers that spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand and Samoa. A lyrical, powerful story of cross-cultural encounter. Now considered a classic of Pacific Literature.

"With searing penetration, Albert Wendt reveals the hypocrisy of racial pride. The reader is constantly required to realign his own attitudes, about his and other races and to reassess his own position." NZ Bookwork.

"It is unlikely that anyone else could portray the people of two countries with the honest assessment and generous humanity that Wendt brings to this novel." Islands.