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Kiana davenport is descended from a fullblooded native hawaiian mother, and a caucasian father from talladega, alabama. This book beautifully shows the continuous cycle and circle of life, as we repeat our ancestors as ourselves. The story revolves around pono the oldest matriarch of a hawaiian family whose legacy goes back generations. Shark dialogues, by kiana davenport if ever a book deserved more than five stars, it is this one. She is the author of critically acclaimed novels shark dialogues 1994 and song of the exile, both of which explore aspects of life as a polynesian in western society. Shark dialogues is a great, sprawling, and difficult nay, devastating book. Spellbinding in its imagery and ancient myths, shark dialogues is the stunningly sensual and visionary epic of a polynesian hawaiian family, a story of dari. But overall her second book was not the sweeping saga that i expected. Spellbinding in its imagery and ancient myths, shark dialogues is. Read shark dialogues by kiana davenport available from rakuten kobo.
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Each paragraph flows like a poem, and i found myself reading the same words again and again, trying to absorb all the ideas contained in each line. Here, as mothers struggle to love and raise their daughters, and as women seek the same over and over, in their lives, their love and their men. Will be rereading shark dialogues soon because there is so much poetry in the writing, im sure i missed a lot of it as i raced through this book to see what would happen next. Navy, stationed at pearl harbor, when he fell in love with her mother, emma kealoha awaawa kanoho houghtailing. Shark dialogues is a gorgeous book about the power of our descendants. Shark dialogues ebook by kiana davenport 9781439192436. An epic saga of seven generations of one family encompasses the tumultuous history of hawaii as a hawaiian woman gather. Reviewers and readers have described it as the history of hawaii, dominated by a powerhouse of a matriarch. Kiana davenport epic of a polynesian hawaiian family, a story of daring passionate women and men, their losses and triumphs, their comedies and. Review of shark dialogues, by kiana davenport west of. Shark dialogues kindle edition by davenport, kiana.
Shark dialogues is personal, political, historical and magical. A sprawling but compelling first novel, davenports gargantuan family epic centers on the aweinspiring hawaiian. Publication date 1995 topics women publisher new york. Her most recent novel was the bestselling house of many gods. Buy the kobo ebook book shark dialogues by kiana davenport at indigo. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Posts about shark dialogues novel written by christiglover. Shark dialogues ebook by kiana davenport rakuten kobo. Kiana davenport is an american author of parthawaiian ancestry. Indeed, such is a quick caricature of its structure and unfolding, but thats like describing the pacific ocean as a huge, peaceful sea teeming. Its all barometricky out there, says the bearded one. Shark dialogues by kiana davenport an epic saga of seven generations of one family encompasses the tumultuous history of hawaii as a hawaiian woman. A novel that manages to weave in a centurys worth of hawaiian.
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