"Early on a drizzly Saturday morning Faleasa Osovae- the seventy-six-year-old titled head of the Aiga Faleasa, faithful husband of a devoted Felefele, stern but generous father of seven sons and five obedient daughters, and the most respected alii in the village of Malaelua- woke with a strange bitter taste in his mouth to fine . . . that everything and everybody. . . that till then had given meaning to his existence, now filled him with an almost unbearable feeling of revulsion.. . .And so begins an extraordinary reading experience!"-- back cover