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. Why is it we've strayed this far?
We think we've found a firm fit to this land.
To our children and mokopuna it's home.
That's good enough pe ‘a o‘o mai le Amen
and Papatûânuku embraces us …

• Albert Wendt, Author

  ʻO le atamai o aliʻi, le Susuga Maualaʻivao Albert Wendt ʻo se tusitala lāuiloa i le Pasefika ma ʻo se polofesa ʻua lītaea mai le Iunivesitē o 'Aukilani, Niu Sila.
  
  
  Maualaivao Albert Wendt is the Pacific’s most renowned writer. He is an emeritus professor at Auckland University.