Publisher's Synopsis
'Reading this novel is an overwhelming experience. This is the story of unimaginable suffering and astounding human endurance, of love, music, and redemption amidst the horrors of war. Kiana Davenport's prose is sharp and shining as a sword, yet her sense of poetry and love of nature permeate each line. This book is haunting.'ISABEL ALLENDE'Song of the Exile is written to be a popular novel, which is to say it has a story that sweeps across three continents and is fired by a flaming romance. What separates it from its genre, however, is its intensity of feeling, its body of sensuous detail present on every one of its pages, and its dedication to a level of writing very few best-sellers possess.'NORMAN MAILERThis truly epic, sweeping novel spans the world and reaches the heights of love and the depths of despair and degradation.;From peaceful Hawaii to the turmoil of pre-War Europe, through war torn Asia to the last throes of war in the Pacific we follow Keo, the 'hula man' and the two passions which sustain his life - his lifelong, relentless love for Sunny, and his matchless power over music, a power to reach for the sublime and transport his listeners, and his readers, with him.In spellbinding, sensual prose, Kiana Davenport follows the odyssey of one resilient man searching for his soul mate after she is torn from his side by the forces of war. This extraordinary novel also sheds a searing light on the unspoken fate that befell thousands of women during this dark time in history. As haunting as a trumpet's final soaring note, Song of the Exile is a mesmerising story of music and myth, tragedy and triumph, survival and transcendence.R
