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Millennium – A Memoir

A novella-sized slice of life travelogue by Peri Hoskins

Millennium – A Memoir by Peri Hoskins

A stained-glass-inspired cover artwork in warm ochre and deep teal tones with bold leaded segments suggesting a Pacific island at first light.

It's December 1999, the cusp of a new millennium. The tiny Pacific Kingdom of Tonga will be first in the world to usher it in. We travel there with our narrator to see the sun set on the old and the dawn rise on the new — and we discover much more.

In a time and place of old customs we see the gentle advance of the new. This Pacific paradise is home to people at the meeting point of human exchange, tradition, and the modern world. The book evokes the spare, sun-lit prose of Ernest Hemingway.

Millennium is a novella-sized slice of life travelogue of about 20,000 words — a small, vivid record of one place at the turning of the century.

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Millennium – A Memoir is available as both eBook and print book.

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A short opening from the book is available on the dedicated excerpt page, giving a first taste of the narrator's voice and the Tongan setting.

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