Books set in Tahiti, France

Tahiti

• 1991

  Island of Shattered Dreams

  L’Île des rêves écrasés

  1991 · Chantal Spitz · novel

  The first Polynesian novel: a family over four generations, up to the nuclear tests.

• 1932

  Mutiny on the Bounty

  Les Révoltés du Bounty

  1932 · Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall · novelMatavai Bay, Tahiti

  1788: the Bounty’s five months at Tahiti, the mutiny, and the island the men return to.

• 1919

  The Moon and Sixpence

  L’Envoûté

  1919 · W. Somerset Maugham · novelalso Paris

  A London stockbroker turned painter, after Gauguin, ends his days in Tahiti.

• 1907

  Les Immémoriaux

  1907 · Victor Segalen · novel

  A Tahitian priest comes home to find his gods forgotten and the missionaries in charge.

• 1901

  Noa Noa

  1901 · Paul Gauguin · memoirMataiea, Tahiti

  1891–1893: Gauguin’s first stay in Tahiti, at Mataiea, and his young wife Tehura.

• 1880

  The Marriage of Loti

  Le Mariage de Loti

  1880 · Pierre Loti · novelPapeete, Tahiti

  A young naval officer and Rarahu, a Tahitian girl, in Queen Pomare’s island.

• 1847

  Omoo

  1847 · Herman Melville · novel

  A deserting sailor, jailed by the British consul, then free to roam Tahiti and Moorea.