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Pina.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peu, Titaua.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Restless Books, 2022.
- Summary:
- Winner of the 2017 Eugène Dabit PrizeWinner of the 2019 French Voices Grand PrizeFrom award-winning Tahitian author Titaua Peu comes Pina, a devastating novel about a family torn apart by secrets and the legacy of colonialism, held together by nine-year-old Pina, a girl shouldering the immeasurable weight of her family's traumas.Far from Tahiti's postcard-perfect beaches, Ma and Auguste and five of their nine children live a hand-to-mouth life in destitute, run-down Tenaho. Nine-year-old Pina, abused and neglected in equal measure, is the keeper of her family's secrets, though the weight of this knowledge soon proves to be a burden no child could ever bear.A victim of her father's alcoholic rages and the object of her mother's anger and indifference, Pina protects her younger sister, Moïra, as best she can, but a tragic accident upsets the precarious equilibrium of the family, setting them on a path to destruction. The fault lines of her family, descendants of M'ohi warriors who once fended off European settlers, begin to shift and crack open, laying bare how the past shapes and haunts the present: her brother Pauro falls in love with a Frenchman, her sister Rosa sinks into sexual exploitation as a futile means of escape, her eldest brother August Junior's addictions and temper may lead him into ruin, and Hannah, the oldest daughter who had escaped to France, is beckoned back home, fearing the worst.Elegantly translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, Pina introduces a bold and profoundly humane anticolonial writer. It's a gut punch of a novel that traces the history of a family, an island, and a people, reaching back to a time before colonial rule and stretching into an imagined, hopeful future of independence and autonomy, offering the promise of redemption.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- On Oceania, Representation, and Translation: An Introduction
- Dedication
- Note on Pronunciation
- Prologue
- The Father and the Mother
- Car Accident
- The Hospital
- Happenstance
- The Funeral
- Out in the Backcountry
- One-on-One
- Meetings
- First Fight
- The Wake-Up
- The Announcement
- A Whore's Life
- The Sentence
- The Place of All Possibilities
- Home Again
- Strange Love
- Hannah's Life
- Archaeological Gathering
- A Woman from Here
- Love Scene
- Junior's Life
- Gay Men
- School and Pina
- Cleansing
- Insanity
- Hannah and Michel
- More Meetings
- Another Night of Violence
- Absolute Love
- Rebirth
- Pyromaniac
- Fresh Start
- Pina and Roméo
- The Slap
- François
- Revelations
- The Grave
- Lonelinesses
- Michel
- Rainbow
- Taramo 120
- Revenge
- Executions
- Settling Accounts
- Epilogue
- Translator's Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781632061546
- 1632061546
- OCLC:
- 1314430433
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