Books set in New Caledonia, France

New Caledonia

• 2005

  The Wreck

  L’Épave

  2005 · Déwé Gorodé · novel

  The first Kanak novel: a woman faces buried violence amid the independence struggle.

• 1998

  Cannibale

  1998 · Didier Daeninckx · novelalso Paris

  1931: Kanaks shown as cannibals at the Paris Colonial Exhibition, and one man’s escape.

• 1980

  Chân Đăng

  Chân Đăng, les Tonkinois de Calédonie au temps colonial

  1980 · Jean Vanmai · novel

  1930s: Vietnamese contract workers in the nickel mines of colonial New Caledonia.