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- ID
- b220
- Title
- "Coconut Radio."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 7
- Word Count
- 1650
- Publisher
- Evening Standard
- Publication Year
- 1955
- Topics
- Expatriates, Tahiti
The sixth of six brief newspaper "Tales of Tahiti."
Various British guests at a dinner party in Tahiti consume exotic food and drink, one being accompanied by his vahini (native mistress) — a blank-eyed and unsmiling older woman drinking gin, another arriving with his new vahini — a beautiful, smiling girl of fourteen or fifteen.
In the Evening Standard (October 22, 1955), The Wedding Party (1965), Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories (1989).
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