![]() ![]() He spent the whole time wearing shoes, cramping his feet, too wide from their long freedom, into these coarse and heavy instruments of torture which prevent the land from communicating with those it carries. He feels the strength flowing back into him through the soles of his feet, and understands suddenly why the foreign land that carried him for five years was always foreign to him. “While the villagers prepare the tāmā’ara’a where everyone will gather to welcome back their five sons, Tematua slowly reacquaints himself with his land. Set during the time of the Cold War, Spitz captures numerous minds on the French territory With the original words in French, it was later translated by Jean Anderson to spread its message across the barriers of language. It is the first novel from the mind of a native Tahitian. ![]() Spitz, Island of Shattered Dreams is a historical fiction novel around the relationships and conflicts between the Tahitian people, French Polynesian government, French colonists, land, and ocean. ![]()
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