Leaves of the Banyan Tree by Albert Wendt (Winner of the 1980 New Zealand Wattie Book of the Year Award)

Description

An epic spanning three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa, exploring on a grand scale such universal themes as greed, corruption, colonialism, exploitation, and revenge.

Winner of the 1980 New Zealand Wattie Book of the Year Award, it is considered a classic work of Pacific literature.