Bill Fernandez
My new historical novel, John Tana, is likely to be ready for sales in a couple of months in 2016.
My hero is a Native Hawaiian teenage orphan whose inherited farmland is stolen by plantation owners who took advantage of a new law introducing private property to Hawai'i: The Great Mahele. The unfair clash between powerful Western business interests and Hawaiian ways creates turmoil which threatens his life. Because of his possible claim to regain his land, he is a marked man which causes him and family to escape by canoe to Oahu. Set amid the whaling era and burgeoning power of the plantations, the reader is carried along like his canoe on a powerful, destructive wave. A love interest conflict between Christianity mores and Hawaiian ways adds to his torment.
Did a lot of research on this period in the island history when the simple taro farmers and fishermen were helpless against Western domination.
My hero is a Native Hawaiian teenage orphan whose inherited farmland is stolen by plantation owners who took advantage of a new law introducing private property to Hawai'i: The Great Mahele. The unfair clash between powerful Western business interests and Hawaiian ways creates turmoil which threatens his life. Because of his possible claim to regain his land, he is a marked man which causes him and family to escape by canoe to Oahu. Set amid the whaling era and burgeoning power of the plantations, the reader is carried along like his canoe on a powerful, destructive wave. A love interest conflict between Christianity mores and Hawaiian ways adds to his torment.
Did a lot of research on this period in the island history when the simple taro farmers and fishermen were helpless against Western domination.
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