← Epeli Hau'ofaKisses in the Nederendsby Epeli Hau'ofaFind on Amazon↗About the authorEpeli Hau'ofaTongan academic and fiction writer whose Tales of the Tikongs is a satirical classic of Pacific Island literature. His essay 'Our Sea of Islands' is the foundational text of Pacific studies.More by Epeli Hau'ofaTales of the TikongsComic stories satirizing Pacific Island bureaucracy and colonial legacies→Our Sea of IslandsEssays reconceptualizing the Pacific as a unified maritime civilization→