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| 类型/形式: | Domestic fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| 附加的形体格式: | Online version: Hemmings, Kaui Hart. Descendants. New York : Random House, c2007 (OCoLC)608207472 |
| 材料类型: | 小说, 互联网资源 |
| 文件类型: | 书, 互联网资源 |
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Kaui Hart Hemmings |
| ISBN: | 1400066336 9781400066339 |
| OCLC号码: | 71313003 |
| 描述: | 283 p. ; 25 cm. |
| 责任: | Kaui Hart Hemmings. |
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Paradise Re-Gained
Matt King must make three decisions. Whether to take his comatose wife off life-support. Whether he can succeed as a hands-on parent after years of relinquishing that role to his wife. Finally, whether to sell his birthright as one of Hawaii's largest indigenous landowners, to a haole (White) land...
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Matt King must make three decisions. Whether to take his comatose wife off life-support. Whether he can succeed as a hands-on parent after years of relinquishing that role to his wife. Finally, whether to sell his birthright as one of Hawaii's largest indigenous landowners, to a haole (White) land developer. When Matt learns his wife's coma is irreversible, he gathers the people who loved her to say goodbye. Out of a generosity of spirit, he decides to include the man with whom she was having an affair. When he discovers that this man is the brother-in-law of the developer, Matt decides he cannot sell, not to this man, not even, perhaps, to anyone. The White Man has raped Hawaii's resources and taken their women. He cannot sell his birthright but he must honor it. This is about respect, and self-respect. The figure is easy but the psychology of grief and loss rings true. Hemmings also has an ear for how tweens speak though I find the character Sid, the friend of Matt's daughter Alex, functions like a Greek chorus and not at all like a teen. Do we really need the services of an interpreter? Matt's motives as the first person narrator are hardly obscure. Ambiguity and complexity can make a character truly three-dimensional and deepen a reader's appreciation.
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