Ebook {Epub PDF} Leaves of the Banyan Tree by Albert Wendt

Novel by a New Zealand/Samoan author. Originally published: Auckland, N.Z.: Longman Paul, Leaves of the Banyan Tree is not just THE epic of the Pacific but surely one of the epics of world literature. There can be no higher praise for a novel that encompasses the full spectrum of human hopes, weaknesses and failings as we follow three generations of a family in mid-century Samoa as they get sucked into a vortex of destructive greed and vanity/5(23). Albert Wendt: Leaves of the Banyan Tree (US: The Banyan) One of the key themes of this book can be found in many other books written by novelists from post-colonial countries, namely the idea that arrival of the colonial power changes everything and that some people (generally the younger generation) embrace these changes while others (generally the older generation) resent them and feel that a way .

In , Albert Wendt was awarded first place for Leaves of the Banyan Tree at the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards. He delivered the Book Council lecture, entitled 'Le Vaipe: the Dead Water', at the Festival. He was awarded Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for Services to Literature in the same year. Leaves Of The Banyan Tree (Talanoa)|Albert Wendt, Animals In Peril|John A. Hoyt, The Pulp7 Quartereader - Book One|Michael Storm, The Werner Arithmetic Book II|Frank Hall. (from Leaves of the Banyan Tree) Albert Wendt was born in Apia, Western Samoa, of mixed German and Polynesian ancestry. His father was a plumber, and a musician, who gave up his music for trying to get his children through school. In his childhood Wendt was fascinated by his grandmother Mele's storytelling - stories, poems, chants, legends.

This novel by the Samoan-born Wendt (The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man, , etc.), first published in , is a family saga that contrasts three generations of Western Samoans as a way of exploring the effects of colonialism before and after the country's independence from New Zealand. A saga of three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa undermined by the changes brought about by colonialism. It is considered a classic work of Pacific literature and Wendt's best novel. Leaves of the Banyan Tree is not just THE epic of the Pacific but surely one of the epics of world literature. There can be no higher praise for a novel that encompasses the full spectrum of human hopes, weaknesses and failings as we follow three generations of a family in mid-century Samoa as they get sucked into a vortex of destructive greed and vanity.