Civilized Girl, Jully Makini, 1981
- Solomon Islands, #3
- Read September 2016
- Various internet sources (see below)
- Opening Line: Cheap perfume/ Six inch heels/ Skin-tight pants/ Civilized girl
The poetry of Jully Makini
On the List
Vanuatu: Substance without style
Black Stone, Grace Mera Molisa, 1983
The Story of the Eel, Elder Mark of Emil Potun, 2004
- Vanuatu, #2 & #3
- Black Stone: skimmed on Google Books; Story of the Eel: read online through JSTOR
- Read August, 2016
- Opening line (Black Stone): Ageless Vatu/ primeval source/ of creative forces/ ad infinitum
- Opening line (Story of the Eel): There was once an old man and an old woman.
The Desawarnana: Boners in translation
Java in the 14th Century, translated and edited by Theodore G. Th. Pigeaud, 1960
The Desawarnana of Mpu Prapañca, translated and edited by S.O. Robson, 1995
- Indonesia, #1
- Borrowed from SF library
- Read: April 2017
- Rating: 2/5 (Pigeaud translation), 2.5/5 (Robson translation)
- Recommended for: Salty academics
Nights of Storytelling: Always pay attention to the subheading
Nights of Storytelling: A Cultural History of Kanaky-New Caledonia, Raylene Ramsay, ed., 2011
- New Caledonia, #4
- Borrowed from SF library
- Read: May 2016
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: students
The Kanak Apple Season
The Kanak Apple Season: Selected Short Fiction of Déwé Gorodé, Déwé Gorodé, translated and edited by Peter Brown, 2004
- New Caledonia, #3
- Borrowed from SF public library
- Read: February 2016
- Rating: 3.5/5
- Recommended for: studious rabble-rousers
Les Contes de Poindi: Tool-making crows and living dead eels
Les Contes de Poindi, Jean Mariotti, 1941
- New Caledonia, #1
- Paperback, $4.67 from Amazon
- Read July 2016
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: wise children
Meļaļ: American Shame
Meļaļ: A Novel of the Pacific, Robert Barclay, 2002
- Marshall Islands, #1
- Borrowed from SF library
- Read December 2016
- Rating: 4.5/5
- Recommended for: People who are fed up with working for The Man
Blossoms of Longing: sex and death in medieval Java
Blossoms of Longing: Ancient Verses of Love and Lament, translated from the Old Javanese by Thomas M. Hunter, 1998
- Indonesia, #2
- Free digital edition from the Lontar Foundation
- Read: April 2017
- Rating: 3.5/5
- Recommended for: indolent romantics
Diaspora and the Difficult Art of Dying: my memory fails me once again
Diaspora and the Difficult Art of Dying, Sudesh Mishra, 2002
- Fiji, #7
- Borrowed from SF library
- Rating: 4.5/5
- Read: February 2016
- Recommended for: storm-tossed master mariners
Kava in the Blood: Who knew a coup could be so boring?
Kava in the Blood, Peter Thomson, 1999
- Fiji, #5
- Paperback, $12 from Amazon.com
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Read: February 2016
- Recommended for: People with better attention spans than mine
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