In Paradise of the Pacific, Susanna Moore, the award-winning author of In the Cut and The Life of Objects, pieces together the elusive, dramatic story of Hawai'i - a place of kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries and explorers - a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualised world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values.
- ISBN10 0374536171
- ISBN13 9780374536176
- Publish Date 2 August 2016 (first published 18 August 2015)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 September 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English