Books by Kiana Davenport

Working with the injured following a devastating hurricane on the island of Kauai, Ana, a physician abandoned by her mother and raised by poor, native Hawaiian relatives, has a fateful encounter with Niki, a Russian documentary filmmaker with his own turbulent and deprived past. By the author of Song of the Exile. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Beginning with the fateful meeting of a nineteenth-century Yankee sailor and the runaway daughter of a Tahitian chief, and sweeping over a century and a half of passionate, turbulent Hawaiian history, SHARK DIALOGUES takes place as the first novel to do justice to the rich heritage and cruel conflicts of the beautiful and beleaguered island and their people. Surreal, provocative, erotic, magical, meaningful, and supremely wise, it is a tale of islanders and invaders, of victors and victims, of queens and whores, of lepers and healers. And at its center are Pono, the magnificent pure-blooded matriarch and seer, and her four mixed-blood granddaughters seeking to come to terms with the contradictions of their ancestries and the hungers of their hearts. Their loves, their hates, the bonds joining them, and the furies possessing them are interwoven with ancient legends and lore of the islands whose past offers their salvation and whose future is their fate. Kiana Davenport has written a major contribution to the literature of the Pacific Rim--a great reading experience both brilliantly contemporary in its form and timeless in its illumination.

Traces the saga of a Hawaiian jazz musician and a Korean-Hawaiian beauty who narrowly survive the punishments of World War II.