FREELOVE By Sia Figiel Kindle Edition Fiction FREELOVE It is 1985 in Nu‘uolemanusa/Village of the Sacred Owl, Western Samoa. Madonna’s Like a Virgin rules the airwaves. Brilliant and inquisitive high school student and Star Trek fanatic, 17 ½ year old Inosia Alofafua Afatasi, is sent by her mother to the capital, Apia, to buy three giant white threads. While she waits at the bus stop, Mr. Ioane Viliamu, her teacher of Science and Mathematics and recent graduate of the University of Papua New Guinea and the pastor’s eldest son, in turn, her spiritual brother, stops to offer her a ride in his red pick up truck. Should she wait for the bus? Or should she accept the ride? The protagonist s first journey into the world of love becomes a journey to the past and the present of Samoa for the reader a journey that is pretty comprehensive given the short length of the book and a starting point to explore the history of the Pacific Islands FREELOVE Could have been the Pacific Novel of our time Written beautifully and offers a slice of decolonial Samoan history and sexuality She weaves the cosmos with Pasifika sexuality and history with the mo olelo stories of her culture and it s stunning and beautiful The reason I say could have is because the book includes inconsistencies in the story.

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And choices like not putting the dialog in quotes which I appreciated the reason she made decisions like this but it didn t work here all made this book confusing at times and frustrating at other times. Book lovers read online free 5 Another book that left me conflicted for different reasons This book is in part an examination of boundaries and transgression and what started off as a narrative that seemed to be about a teacher abusing his position of trust to try and seduce a student turned into something very different While Ioage is the first to overstep this boundary.

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Particularly attitudes towards sex I was unaware of the anthropological debates around Samoan culture and sex and how they excluded Samoan people from said debates before reading this so the QA at the end of the book was very educational and helped make much sense of where the idea for the novel was born from and how it was returning voices and agency lost with the advent of Christianity. Love island uk free watch One thing I did find a little jarring is that the dialogue didn t feel all that natural at many points Iaoge and Sia were taking it in turns to deliver speeches to each other This worked much better in the epistolary section at the end makes sense FREELOVE It is 1985 in Western Samoa and Madonna s Like a Virgin rules the airwave Seventeen and a half year old Star Trek fanatic Inosia Alofafua Afatasi is sent to the capital.

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Review in English below Fiegel This was the book by a Samoan author I read in my attempt to read one book from every country in the world. Writers and lovers epub free Can eroticism be combined with a lesson in history bad grammar Sia ultimately is just as active and the experience is far less damaging than the tales she has heard of how her friends lost their virginities experiencing pain just wanting to get it over with etc Theirs is first and foremost a meeting of minds followed by a meeting of bodies. Freelove freeway chords As the book develops we delve into Samoan culture both historically as re written by colonisers and in the 1980s setting where Christianity has erased and warped Samoan culture Apia to buy three giant white threads As she waits at the bus stop Mr Ioane Viliamu her science and maths teacher and the son of the pastor and in turn her spiritual brother stops to offer her a ride in his red pickup truck Inosia is faced with choice does she take the ride or wait for the bus Freelove is a story of forbidden romance and a young woman who is smart and capable but still has a lot to learn Inosia is very academically smart and loves science and space in part thanks to her obsession with Star Trek I think having a character who is repeatedly told to be beautiful also be smart and has a nerdy obsession is quite different It took a little while to get used to how Freelove is written There s no speech marks when characters talk instead there s a new paragraph when someone is speaking and there s no real signifier when it s back to being Inosia s thoughts You definitely have to pay attention and when there are conversations they flow very quickly I liked how the book features Samoan though Sometimes when characters talked it would first be in Samoan and then have the English translation next to it There is sexual content in Freelove and I appreciated that any sex was consensual and the characters were constantly talking about how they were feeling if anything hurt or they wanted to stop and they listened to one another The romance between Inosia and Ioane was interesting because both of them knew what they were doing was wrong or wouldn t be accepted in their village This was because of the age difference the fact they are spiritually related to one another and the fact that they weren t traditionally married They go into things with their eyes open but as you read you can t help but wonder when or how everything is going to go wrong for them It gives you a sense of foreboding that s never really satisfied Freelove is a quick and relatively easy read The descriptions of Idosia s life and her family are vivid and while the romance felt a bit rushed to begin with it s clear that these two care about one another deeply FREELOVE Sia Figiel s most recent novel Freelove tackles the variety of subjects which include pre palagi pre European kastom missionary society Mead vs Freeman controversy traditional aiga family clan values education in science respect to elders finally importance of courage Rather than dreaming up ways of escaping reality your perpetual duty is to face reality and all the challenges it throws on your way Don t wish for the easy Go through the hard and tough Because it is only there an then that you truly discover just how remarkable you are And you should never forget it Astound yourself so that you may astound those around you 167. Freelove freeway tab According to Epeli Hau ofa and his theory of Sea of Islands 1994 self confidence and strong belief in Oceanic strength solidarity and culture will play a strategic role in revolutionizing post colonial reality and regaining regional independence in Oceania Freelove definitely raises these aspects simultaneously touching the matters of gender equality and costly possibility of individual choice over cultural norms By drawing a silhouette of intelligent 17 years old Inosia the author accentuates the strong position of females in upcoming era She wishes women and men loved each other in respectful and affectionate way Her novel is full of excitement and sexual tension As Sia becomes intimate with Ioage their relationship is fulfilled on multiple levels including desire friendship trust and intimacy showing the beauty of romantic feelings. Free love trailer In the interview for Salon du livre de Tahiti Sia Figiel admits that Freelove is her favourite novel that she has been aiming to write for last 30 years She stresses how fulfilling and satisfying was the journey to compose the story in only six weeks time 2020 As her previous novels focused on the patriarchal system and limitations women ought to fight on daily basis Freelove is a perfect counterbalance proving the existence of pure love. Freelove freeway lyrics Hau ofa E 1994 Our Sea of Islands The Contemporary Pacific 6 1 147 161 Salon du livre de Tahiti 2020 November 23 Rencontre avec Sia Figiel Video YouTube FREELOVE

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Sia Figiel was born in 1967 Author of novels plays and poetry she has traveled extensively in Europe and the Pacific Islands and has had residencies at the University of Technology in Sydney the East West Center in Hawaii the Pacific Writing Forum at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji and Logoipulotu College in Savaii She is also known as a performance poet and has appeared at several international literary festivals Her first novel where we once belonged won the Commonwealth Writer s Prize Best First Book for the Southeast Asia South Pacic region She lives in Samoa. Freeloveb bet It is 1985 in Nu uolemanusa Village of the Sacred Owl Western Samoa Madonna s Like a Virgin rules the airwaves Brilliant and inquisitive high school student and Star Trek fanatic 17 year old Inosia Alofafua Afatasi is sent by her mother to the capital Apia to buy three giant white threads While she waits at the bus stop Mr Ioane Viliamu her teacher of Science and Mathematics and recent graduate of the University of Papua New Guinea and the pastor s eldest son in turn her spiritual brother stops to offer her a ride in his red pick up truck Should she wait for the bus Or should she accept the ride FREELOVEHer brother AND her teacher FREELOVE Not the ending I was expecting I loved the story itself very interesting Again as headline states I wish it had a little of a better end FREELOVE Well written though I did not care much for the actual romance FREELOVE.

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Culture and natural history Fiegel proves that it can.Overall I would still recommend this book FREELOVE 3.Figiel S 2016 Freelove A Novel L ihi Press