Pina
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Brooklyn, NY : Restless Books, [2022].
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9781632061553, 1632061554
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Addison Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Books | FIC PEU T. | On Shelf |
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult | FICTION PEU, T. | On Shelf |
Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Fiction | F PEU | On Shelf |
Glen Ellyn Public Library - Adult Fiction | FIC PEU, TITAUA | On Shelf |
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction | FICTION PEU | On Shelf |
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Published
Brooklyn, NY : Restless Books, [2022].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xii, 313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781632061553, 1632061554
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General Note
"First published as Pina by Au vent des îles, Pape'ete, Tahiti, 2016."--Title page verso.
Description
From award-winning Tahitian author Titaua Peu comes Pina, a devastating novel about a family torn apart by secrets and the legacy of colonialism, held together by nine-year-old Pina, a girl shouldering the immeasurable weight of her family's traumas. Far from Tahiti's postcard-perfect beaches, Ma and Auguste and five of their nine children live a hand-to-mouth life in destitute, run-down Tenaho. Nine-year-old Pina, abused and neglected in equal measure, is the keeper of her family's secrets, though the weight of this knowledge soon proves to be a burden no child could ever bear. A victim of her father's alcoholic rages and the object of her mother's anger and indifference, Pina protects her younger sister, Moïra, as best she can, but a tragic accident upsets the precarious equilibrium of the family, setting them on a path to destruction. The fault lines of her family, descendants of Mā'ohi warriors who once fended off European settlers, begin to shift and crack open, laying bare how the past shapes and haunts the present: her brother Pauro falls in love with a Frenchman, her sister Rosa sinks into sexual exploitation as a futile means of escape, her eldest brother August Junior's addictions and temper may lead him into ruin, and Hannah, the oldest daughter who had escaped to France, is beckoned back home, fearing the worst. Elegantly translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, Pina introduces a bold and profoundly humane anticolonial writer. It's a gut punch of a novel that traces the history of a family, an island, and a people, reaching back to a time before colonial rule and stretching into an imagined, hopeful future of independence and autonomy, offering the promise of redemption.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Peu, T., Zuckerman, J., & Mohabir, R. (2022). Pina (First Restless Books paperback edition.). Restless Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Peu, Titaua, Jeffrey Zuckerman and Rajiv, Mohabir. 2022. Pina. Restless Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Peu, Titaua, Jeffrey Zuckerman and Rajiv, Mohabir. Pina Restless Books, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Peu, Titaua,, Jeffrey Zuckerman, and Rajiv Mohabir. Pina First Restless Books paperback edition., Restless Books, 2022.
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