Robert Barclay. Melal: a Novel of the Pacific.(Book Review)

World Literature Today | April 1, 2003| | Copyright

Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 2002. viii + 300 pages. $14.95. ISBN 0-8248-2591-8

IN THIS ASTONISHING FIRST NOVEL, Robert Barclay evokes an eventful day in the life of a Marshallese family comprising Rujen Keju and his adolescent sons, Jebro and Nuke. Despite an Aristotelian respect for the unity of time and place, Barclay plunges the reader into an extraordinarily complex, multilayered world that reverberates with sociohistorical and geopolitical implications. The setting is the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands, and the book's title, translated from ...

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