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In 1936 a celebrated American expatriate writer, Nathan Sutherland, arrives alone in Hawaii from bohemian Paris, fleeing the approach of fascism and war, tired of the expatriate Paris of the 1920s. He claims that he has come to the islands to write and search the high jungle for a lost species of orchid, but he seems little interested in doing either.The wealthy and entrenched colonialist community are pleased to welcome him into their midst as a famous writer. Nathan is sophisticated, charming and refined, a man who knows their world. But although Nathan joins the privileged society, he is not a man who cares to belong to it, he much prefers the unpredictable company of the flamboyant lesbian who is the scandal of the community. After Nathan encounters her friend, Sara Van Meer, a spirited woman at the heart of the island society, his bohemianism begins to bring him into conflict with the morally decadent but discreet aristocratic community.Nathan comes from a bohemian artistic world in which the highest value is love and the expression of passion for life, and Nathan is a man who intends to find what he has come to Hawaii to seek..The book is an authentic look at wealthy American colonialism in the elegant 1930s.More Lee Vidor book reviews can be seen on Goodreads.com/LeeVidorAccording to author, Lee Vidor:This is a romantic love story taking place in Hawaii, in colonialist American high society in 1936. The story is about obsessive passion, about erotic attraction and the force of desire in our lives. About the wounding and healing of love, an examination of what is worth desiring, and what is worthless.It's also an authentic historical portrait of colonialism, and the cost of it to the privileged. Hawaii was colonized by Americans no differently than Africa or India were by the British, but these American colonial communities were far more dynamic and decadent than those of the aristocratic British Empire. It’s a fascinating and virtually unknown world.Many more reviews of Lee VIdor's books can be seen at: http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/4938461.Lee_VidorAccording to critics:'Witty, elegant, romantic and sexy..''A gripping story.. Well told and surprising.. I couldn't put it down.''Passionate and erotically sophisticated..''A beautiful story.. I shivered in the heat.''Evocative.. Intrigue and romantic longing and obsessive passion..''A moving story about things that matter in our lives..''I loved spending time with these dazzling characters in Hawaii in 1936..''This is colonialism as we have never seen it before. A look behind the silken curtains when the gloves are coming off..' 'A witty and knowing novel. Elegant ballroom dancing was never so decadent.'‘A devastating portrait of the cost of imperialism upon the human psyche.. The first thing wealth buys is moral decadence..’'A beautifully written novel of love, romance and sophisticated eroticism between finely drawn characters. Engrossing and surprising.. 'About Lee Vidor:Lee Vidor is the original source of the astonishing Shakespeare-X Message.Lee Vidor is the author of the novel cycle, 20th Century Bohemians and Angels, which is an expansive cycle of literary novels which follows and dramatizes the development of Modernism among the great writers, artists and bohemians of the 20th Century. It defines the 20th Century as a Modernist Renaissance.The Shakespeare-X Message is a definitive statement of authorship sent to the world by William Shakespeare.It is a mathematically verifiable statement which is a proof of identity.The message can be seen on Amazon or via Google.The Shakespeare-X Message was not sent by the actor William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon..It will amaze and delight the world.