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Hawaii is a novel written by James Michener in 1959. In episodic format like most of his works, the book tells of the original Hawaiians (who came from Bora Bora) and the American occupants, as well as Chinese and Japanese immigrants who came to find their fortunes on the Hawaiian islands. The story starts in the ninth century and ends in the mid-1950s.

Each chapter illustrates the experiences of different groups of settlers on the islands. The point of view changes with each chapter, although by the last part, the point of view changes more rapidly.

In 1966, the book was made into a film starring Max von Sydow and Julie Andrews. The movie focused only on the book's third chapter, From the Farm of Bitterness, which covered the settlement of the island kingdom by its first American missionaries. (The movie's feel-good ending was not consistent with what was in the book.) A 1970 sequel to the movie Hawaii, The Hawaiians (starring Charlton Heston), covered subsequent chapters of the book, including the arrival of the Chinese and Japanese, and the growth of the plantations.

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A paperback edition was reissued in New York by Fawcett Books in 1994 with ISBN 0449213358 .

Category:1959 books Category:1966 films Category:Books by James A. Michener Category:Historical novels

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