- Death, Families of royal descent, Family, Fiction
Narrated in a fearless voice full of bold hilarity and set against the lush, panoramic backdrop of Hawaii, The Descendants is a stunning debut novel about an unconventional family forced to come together and re-create its own legacy...A descendant of one of Hawaii's largest landowners, Matthew King finds his luck has changed.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and effortless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Kaui Hart Hemmings
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 297
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Random House Trade Paperbacks, AudioGO
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9781784707156
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