Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - SE Asia and South Pacific 2010.

Albert Wendt is an acclaimed Samoan-born novelist who has been an influential figure in the developments that have shaped New Zealand and Pacific literature since the 1970s, writing numerous works of fiction and several volumes of poetry, and editing notable anthologies of Pacific literature. He is Emeritus Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland where his particular research interests are new literatures in English, especially Maori and Pacific fiction and poetry and Pacific art and history.