Albert Wendt

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1981
  • Latest Book:
    December 2015
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Books in Order: 17 titles

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  • Breaking Connections

    A dynamic group has emerged in Auckland whose members refer to themselves as the Tribe. Mainly Polynesian, they grow up together, rise from poverty and become successful professionals, bound by love and fierce loyalty. At the centre, is Aaron, who li...

  • The Best of Albert Wendt's Short Stories

    A collection of classic short stories from the award-winning author, Albert Wendt, acknowledged as one of the Pacific's major writers. Albert Wendt's short stories, providing a complex and profound understanding of people and the world, have been rea...

  • Ancestry

    Albert Wendt's new collection of short stories explores the nature of family, tradition and culture through the eyes of those seemingly caught between the realities of modern contemporary life and the ancestral ties of their heritage. With a deft...

  • The Adventures of Vela

    Journey through the many stories and worlds of the immortal Vela - Vela, so red and ugly at birth they called him the Cooked; Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of song maker Mulialofa the Boneman. Follow him ...

  • The Songmaker's Chair

    Auckland, one summer weekend. A family fused together by the energies of multicultural Aotearoa New Zealand faces meltdown as tensions build between migrant and New Zealand-born generations, and between Samoan, Mâori, and Pâlagi family members. ...

  • The Mango's Kiss

    An epic novel stretching out from Samoa to Europe, America and New Zealand, from the turn of the nineteenth century, through the First World War, the Spanish Influenza Epidemic and beyond. Since the 1960s, Albert Wendt has created a profound and fab...

  • Flying-Fox in a Freedom Tree

    This early collection of eight short stories and a novella is vintage Wendt. Stories convey the unease of traditional island community caught up in the rapid changes of the modern world. Wendt writes with enviable directness and with deep feeling: co...

  • The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man and Other Stories

    This remarkable collection of stories offers a portrait of the fascinating and complex world of Samoa. There is Salepa, down on his luck but determined to use his one talent on the reluctant inhabitants of a nearby town; Fiasola, who feels that th...

  • Black Rainbow

    This startling new novel by Albert Wendt takes the form of a fast-moving allegorical thriller. Who are the all-powerful Tribunal and President? Who are the Hunters and the Hunted, and the allies from the depths of the city? Set in a future New Zealan...



  • Nuanua

    This important anthology of contemporary Pacific writing in English is a successor to Lali, first published in 1980 and widely read and admired. Nuanua, like Lali, edited by distinguished Samoan writer Albert Wendt, shows the growing strength and con...

  • Leaves of the Banyan Tree

    An epic spanning three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa, exploring on a grand scale such universal themes as greed, corruption, colonialism, exploitation, and revenge. Winner of the 198...

  • Ola

    When Olamaiileoti Monroe takes her seventy-five-year-old father, Finau, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, both are caught up in a search for understanding of each other and the ties that bind them. Their story unfolds on an international stage--in Sa...

  • Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree: And Other Stories

  • Sons for the Return Home

    Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Sāmoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, reade...

  • The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man

    This remarkable collection of stories offers a portrait of the fascinating and complex world of Samoa. There is Salepa, down on his luck but determined to use his one talent on the reluctant inhabitants of a nearby town; Fiasola, who feels that th...

  • The Banyan

  • Pouliuli

    What happens when an old man wakes up one morning and finds that everything around him now fills with revulsion? What happens when Faleasa Osovae, the highest ranking alii in the village of Maalaelua, feigns madness and throws away his responsibiliti...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Albert Wendt has published 17 books.

Albert Wendt does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Breaking Connections, was published in December 2015.

The first book by Albert Wendt, Pouliuli, was published in January 1981.

No. Albert Wendt does not write books in series.
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