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![]() ![]() This is one of those books that I will read again and again, the words always the same, but the meaning cutting just as deep each time. A story of injustice and hardship, holding so much truth between the pages, this book spoke to me on some deeper level that I wish I could fully understand. Beautifully written love stories enmeshed with the pain of clashing cultural ideals and needs. Spitz’s novel Island of Shattered Dreams to anybody interested in indigenous peoples, the Pacific Islands, nuclear warfare, environmental justice, modernity, globalization, and intercultural relationships. How could they have protected themselves, swept away by time suddenly rushing on, drowned in values so different from their own, in a world where profit and corruption rule people’s minds?” ![]() The white man’s craziness has once again struck this quiet island, maddening its inhabitants who haven’t been able to protect themselves against the devastating torrent of western modernity. “In twenty years Ruahine has gone through the kinds of changes that took place over two millennia in Metropolitan France. ![]()
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