The Beach at Falesa

Resumen del libro

"White men die very suddenly in Falesa."
Originally censored by its British publisher, "The Beach at Falesa" is a scathing critique of colonialism and economic imperialism that bravely takes on many of the 19th Century' s strongest taboos: miscegenation, imperialism, and economic exploitation. It does so with a story that features a surprising and beguiling romance between an adventurous British trader and a young island girl, against a background of increasing--and mysterious--hostility. Are the native islanders plotting against the couple, or is it the other white traders? The result is a denouement that is astonishing in its violence. Told in the unadorned voice of the trader, it is a story that deftly combines the form of the exotic adventure yarn with the moral and psychological questing of great fiction.
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Contributor Bio: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson was a prolific Scottish poet and novelist in the 19th century. He was admired by many other authors, and his work includes The Black Arrow, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He died in 1894.

Biografía del autor

(Edimburgo, Escocia, 1850 - Samoa, 1894) es uno de los escritores que más ha influido en la literatura del siglo xx. Aunque estudió leyes y ejerció como abogado, acabó dedicándose exclusivamente a escribir gracias al éxito de obras como La isla del tesoro (1883) y El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde (1886). En 1880 se casó con Fanny Osbourne, una norteamericana diez años mayor que él, con la que se trasladó a vivir a Estados Unidos. Enfermo de tuberculosis, en 1888 emprendió un viaje por el Pacífico Sur y acabó instalándose en Samoa, donde los aborígenes le bautizaron Tusitala ( el contador de historias ). Yace enterrado en la cima del monte Vaea de esa isla, acompañado desde 1915 por las cenizas de su mujer, a la que los samoanos llamaban Nube Voladora.