The second volume of a trilogy that depicts the lives of little people in Tahiti, Frangipani brings us back to its endearing community and the ties that keep it alive: Materena, Pito and their children who have grown up, as well as all the members of their neighbourhood, cousins and aunts. Always in the freshness and cheerfulness that crosses Breadfruit, Leilani, Materena’s daughter, shows her impulses of emancipation, for her as for her mother, in the face of the burdens of Tahitian society. Approached with the humor, sensitivity and style punctuated by the accents of true speech, this reality is savored in a cocktail that made the success of the previous novel and has lost none of its flavor.
Notably published in Holland, England, the United States, Canada, Italy, Spain, Norway, Finland and Brazil, Frangipanier was a finalist for the New South Wales-Australia Literary Grand Prize in 2005 and the Orange Prize in 2006.
