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Bezig met laden... Pago Pago Tangodoor John Enright
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Pago Pago Tango is set in American Samoa and introduces the reader to Detective Sergeant Apelu Soifua. The island is small, where every one knows everyone else. Samoan culture and values struggle to survive in the face of onslaughts by palangi (North American culture). Many of the traditional ways have already died, although Apelu can remember them being active when he was a boy, before his father took the family to San Francisco. Soifua is uneasy when he's called to the home of Gordon Trurich, an executive with the Sea King Tuna Company, the second largest employer on the island of American Samoa. Trurich lived in Tafuna Plain, the area preferred by the majority of the Americans who lived there. Stolen from the Trurich home were a videotape recorder, a collection of videotapes, a small amount of cash, everything from a single cabinet to a handgun that was used in a gangland killing. Of course, Trurich neglected to mention the latter item on Soifua's visit, but this odd assortment of stolen items leads him into the dark depths of lies, drugs, secret codes, and murder. Although the mystery itself isn't terribly demanding or particularly exciting, this debut shows some promise with a good balance between plot and character introduction. What is interesting about this novel is the way the author describes Samoan culture and the reader gets a look at Samoan traditions and past, contrasted with what it has become. A cozy mystery set on one of the islands in American Samoa. Apule is a Samoan detective. He lived for a while in California, but has returned with his family, to become a low class case detective on the local police force. He stumbles along, ala Columbo style, although you know that's really just an act and he really is pulling the disparate pieces of a drug smuggling crime together. But there a dirty cop involved, a burglary that isn't quite right, and now whites and Samoans are being murdered, in what looks like disparate crimes, but really are related. Will he crack the case before he gets murdered too? This book is set in American Samoa, on the island of Tutuila, at Pago Pago. PAGO PAGO TANGO is a police procedural, the first of a series centred on Detective Sergeant Apelu Soifua. The island is small, where every one knows everyone else. Samoan culture and values struggle to survive in the face of onslaughts by palangi (North American culture). Many of the traditional ways have already died, although Apelu can remember them being active when he was a boy, before his father took the family to San Francisco. Now the Samoan economy is also struggling to survive and traditional goods have been replaced by a thriving drug trade. In reality the palangi are the controllers of the trade and the profits. Natural resources have been plundered and the fishing is almost gone. Serious crime like homicides are rare, but in PAGO PAGO TANGO a relatively unimportant burglary has connections with much more serious money making. What is interesting about this novel is the way the author describes Samoan culture at every opportunity. The reader gets a look at Samoan traditions and past, contrasted with what it has become. An interesting and instructive read, as well as being a tightly plotted novel. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Detective Sergeant Apelu Soifua spent seven years in the San Francisco Police Department, where the job was just a job and solving crimes required cool detachment. But back home on American Samoa, life is personal--especially for a cop. Because on a small island where no one is a stranger and secrets are widely known but never discussed, solving crimes requires a certain...finesse. Here, Apelu must walk the line between two cultures: Samoan versus American, native versus new. And that gulf never yawns wider than when a white family's home in Pago Pago is burglarized. And what appears to be a simple, open-and-shut case turns out to anything but. As the evidence piles up, Apelu follows a tangled trail between cultures, dead bodies, hidden codes, and a string of lies on his hunt for the ugly truth buried at the heart of paradise. Set against the steamy backdrop of the Samoan jungle, this thoughtful whodunit introduces a memorable new gumshoe to the ranks of detective fiction. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Although the mystery itself isn't terribly demanding or particularly exciting, this debut shows some promise with a good balance between plot and character introduction. What is interesting about this novel is the way the author describes Samoan culture and the reader gets a look at Samoan traditions and past, contrasted with what it has become. ( )