Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal, 1887
- Philippines, #7
- paperback, received as a gift
- Read October 2017
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: Harriet Beecher Stowe fan clubs
Noli Me Tangere: Yesterday’s news
Social Issues
Earth Dance
Earth Dance, Oka Rusmini, 2000 (translated by Rani Amboyo & Thomas M. Hunter)
- Indonesia, #13
- Borrowed from SF library (interlibrary loan from UC Riverside)
- Read July 2017
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: scheming social-climbers and their hapless daughters
Max Havelaar: a selfish, altruistic, mediocre, Dutch work of great Indonesian literature
Max Havelaar, or The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company, Multatuli, 1860
- Indonesia, #3; Netherlands, #5
- Paperback, received as a gift
- Read May 2017
- Rating: 3/5
- Opening line: “I am a coffee broker, and I live at No. 37 Lauriergracht, Amsterdam.”
- Recommended for: contradictarians
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
Moving Through the Streets (hopefully on the way to a creative writing class)
Moving Through the Streets, Joseph Veramu, 1994
- Fiji, #4
- $9.49 from alibris.com
- Read January 2016
- Rating: 1.5/5
- Opening Line: The burly man wearing an undersized yellow tee-shirt that accentuated his bulging biceps and chest cast a warning look at Sakaraia before he took hold of his hand and stamped it with the ‘pass in’ mark.
- Recommended for: credulous delinquents
Last Virgin in Paradise: What a Girl Wants (is largely considered irrelevant)
Last Virgin in Paradise, Vilsoni Hereniko and Teresia Teaiwa, 1993
- Fiji, #3 and Kiribati, #3
- Borrowed from SF library
- Read November 2016
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: drama/women’s studies double majors
Doctor to the Islands
Doctor to the Islands, Tom and Lydia Davis, 1954
- Cook Islands, #2
- Borrowed from San Francisco Library
- Read: September, 2015
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Recommended for: Tropical epidemiologists
Vārua Tupu
Vārua Tupu: New Writings from French Polynesia, Frank Stewart, Kareva Mateata-Allain, and Alexander Dale Mawyer, eds., 2006
- French Polynesia, #4
- Paperback, £5.68 from alibris.com
- Read August 2015
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: casual coffee-table browsing
L’Île des rêves écrasés: Of love and atomic bombs
L’Île des rêves écrasés (The Island of Shattered Dreams), Chantal Spitz, 1991
- French Polynesia, #2
- Epub, French edition, €11.50 from fnac.com
- Read: August 2015
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: those who have fallen in love across enemy lines
Tu: More Maori identity issues, this time addressed through war
Tu, Patricia Grace, 2004
- New Zealand, #10
- Paperback, £0.69 from alibris.com
- Read June 2015
- Rating: 4/5
- Opening Line: Dear Rimini and Benedict, You didn’t deserve ill-humour and rebuff, and I had no right to send you off with empty hearts when all you were asking was to get to know your ‘father’.
- Recommended for: the insatiably curious and tragically brave
Around the World in 2000 Books 