Tom Peek

Mauna Kea: A Novel of Hawai'i (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2024 Nautilus Award for Small Press Fiction!

A boundary-bridging novel that will surprise, captivate, and move readers who thought they knew Hawaiʻi; an age-old story of healing a seared heart and finding home.

Mauna Kea: A Novel of Hawai'i is a gripping tale of clashing passionsscience and spirituality, vengeance and compassion, fear and courageset atop Hawaiʻi's 14,000-foot Mauna Kea, realm of revered goddesses and star-wise explorers. A young vagabond running from America's turmoil is forced to confront his own grief and rage on an embattled holy mountain in the Pacific. There he encounters a mysterious domain of ancient mountain deities and the Native Hawaiians who revere them, including two wise elders who take him under their wings and a young woman with a world-weary heart akin to his own. Through his startling experiences with themand a motley cadre of other islandershe learns the power of aloha and discovers an untapped reservoir of faith and courage that rekindles his hope in himself and in the world we share.

Includes an illustrated map and 12 original pen-and-ink drawings made especially for the novel by John D. Dawson.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Easton Studio Press, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781632261212
• Artikelnr.: 67403546

Autorenporträt

An award-winning novelist and acclaimed writing teacher, Tom Peek lived his early life on Minnesota's Upper Mississippi River. After hitchhiking by boat through the South Seas, he settled on Hawaiʻi Island three decades ago. There he's been, among other things, an astronomy and mountain guide on Mauna Kea, an eruption ranger and exhibit writer on Kilauea, and an insider participant in the efforts to protect both sacred volcanoes. In praising his award-winning debut novel, Daughters of Fire, Maile Meyer, founder of Honolulu's Native Books/Na Mea Hawai'i, said, Peek's understanding of place, culture, and current issues is deep and respectful without being heavy-handed. The Contemporary Pacific Journal called him a storyteller extraordinaire, cut from an older cloth seldom seen today.