Melal: A Novel of the Pacific: 6 (Talanoa.) - Softcover

Barclay is a first-time novelist who simply got it right.... Melal is a powerful and at times heart-wrenching novel that should appeal to a wide range of readers interested in the region today.-- "The Contemporary Pacific" A first novel that left me dazzled ... All the characters--the Marshallese, the members of their spirit world, and even the Americans--are well developed and deeply, sensitively drawn-- "Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing" An absorbing, original read-- "Honolulu Weekly"

On Good Friday, 1981, Rujen Keju and his two sons come face to face with their complicated inheritance - one that includes years of atomic testing and the continued military presence of the U.S. in the Pacific. In this highly original work of history and adventure, novelist Robert Barclay weaves together characters and stories from mythological times with those of the present-day to give readers a rare and unsparing look at life in the contemporary Pacific.