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Tiare Celestine Hitiura Vaite

Tiare By Celestine Hitiura Vaite

Tiare by Celestine Hitiura Vaite


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Summary

A year has passed since Materena Mahi's career took a surprising turn from champion professional cleaner to champion professional listener, 'star of the radios'.

Tiare Summary

Tiare by Celestine Hitiura Vaite

A year has passed since Materena Mahi's career took a surprising turn from champion professional cleaner to champion professional listener, 'star of the radios'. Everyone in the family is impressed by her new celebrity status, everyone that is except for her lay-about husband Pito, but no matter, Materena's family have never liked him. With the children grown-up and the radio show a huge success, for the first time in her life Materena has had little to worry about, she's even found time to take driving lessons. But one day all this changes when a listener asks Materena just exactly what the Tahitian way means to her. 'It means belonging to a family,' Materena explains. 'And being Tahitian means being diplomatic with the relatives because you're going to bump into your relatives day after day after day until you die, so it's important to get along.' As the calls flood in, Materena realises how many of her women listeners are torn in half over their identities and families. And for the first time in a long time Materena takes out her birth certificate and reads again and again the words Father Unknown and then she decides, once and for all, that she must find her father, the French militaire her mother fell madly in love with and who never knew he had a daughter. But before she can even start her search an unexpected arrival in the form of her baby granddaughter, Tiare, disturbs the peaceful routine of the Mahi household.

Tiare Reviews

An unforgettable heroine: Materena is passionate, clever and never without words of wisdom ... By the end, the reader is left wanting more, more, more * Kirkus Reviews *
Written in the same good-natured tone as Alexander McCall Smith's bestsellers...Vaite captures, with admirable warmth and humour, the eccentricities of her homeland * Age *
Vaite's work celebrates the vibrant fullness and humour of daily life in Tahiti and reflects her tremendous respect for the strength of the local women * Marie Claire *
Sexy, gutsy and vivid as hibiscus * Canberra Times *

About Celestine Hitiura Vaite

Celestine Hitiura Vaite grew up in Tahiti and fell in love with a visiting Australian surfer when she was 16. Now 39 years old, she is the wife of the fanatic surfer, the mother of three boisterous boys and a sensitive daughter, and lives in a town on the South Coast of New South Wales - by the beach.

Additional information

GOR001497739
9780091797256
009179725X
Tiare by Celestine Hitiura Vaite
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cornerstone
20070104
256
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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