Kona Winds Melanesia '" -- The Mid-American ReviewWinner

'" -- The Mid-American ReviewWinner of the 1992 Association for Asian American Studies National Book Award and the 1991 Elliot Cades Award for Literature

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Kona Winds Melanesia '" -- The Mid-American ReviewWinnerKONA WINDS, the dbut novel by Japanese American author Scott Kikkawa, is a hard boiled noir murder mystery set in Honolulu in 1953, when Hawaii was evolving from a racially stratified, near feudal plantation colony to the multi ethnic 50th State. Honolulu Police Department Detective Sergeant Frankie The Sheik Yoshikawa, a Nisei veteran of World War II, is assigned the case of a young local Japanese woman whose body is found in Honolulu Harbor under a