The Shark That Ate The Sun - Ko e Mago ne Kai e La

This is a story of the Pacific, of a father and his son and their family, of the spiritual voices which guide them - and of the loss that burns within them. It is a story of the people of a small Pacific island, their culture stretched almost to breaking point between their ancestral homeland and the often hostile new land of Karangahape Road and Otara. In this searing first novel, Niuen writer John Puhiatau Pule tells what it's like to be a stranger on the streets of Auckland. Rich with colour, alternatively brutal and lyrical, alive with the rhythms of Polynesia, Pule's unique language heralds the arrival of a truly Pacific magical realism...