“Vaevae! Vaevae!
Come to us while the tahu’ua
are crying to the night –
I know of your passion, of
your sacrifice; I
know how you died for us!”
Amandla Salaam
A murder on an exotic South Pacific island. A colony of political and religious exiles, cut off from the rest of the world in some peculiar social experiment.
Overseen by manipulative French gendarmes, they play out the conflicts and struggles of the mid-20th century as weird games and fantasies. Amandla Salaam is a 50-year-old woman caught up in a poisonous paradise. Pursued by her maniac husband, haunted by memories of her mother and children, she searches for inner peace and meaning to her life.
The schooner is late; the islanders are angry; and the starving exiles are on the point of revolt. We enter a scene of superficial calm and tolerance, but are swiftly dragged into a nightmare world of manhunts, plots and fanatical insanity. Amandla Salaam is an allegory of the 20th century and of mankind’s self-imposed exile from its spirit and humanity.
This murder mystery is also a psychological thriller that examines one woman’s struggle
for personal freedom from guilt, abuse and the loss of both family and hope within
the context of an oppressive French colony. She is being hunted down by her manic
husband and fanatical political exiles Amandla Salaam she tries to find some inner
personal peace.
Book Details
Genre: Murder Mystery
Extent: 520 pages
Cover price: $24.95
Special discount price:
$19.95
ISBN: 978-1-4392-6417-1
Synopsis
A vicious murder with a machete. Amandla Salaam covered with blood, deep gashes in her hands and legs, the room she shares with Benbo Allone blood-splattered and devastated, shattered furniture and bloody bedding thrown everywhere. Smoking a cigarette in a lonely room in a strange brick guesthouse.
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Amandla is Xhosa for “struggle” or “strength;” Salaam is Arabic for
“peace be with
you.”
Thus, the title
of the book means, “The Struggle for Peace.”
Dedicated To:
Pouvanaa a Oopa
Tahiti’s first independence leader
Orurehau ote Ta’ata Maohi!
Freedom for
The People of Tahiti!
“Ere the Dawning, there was
Ora Moemoea, Dream-Mother,
succourer, curled within
a
womb of nothingness...”
