When Robert Keable’s First World War novel Simon Called Peter was published, critics called it ‘offensive’, ‘a libel’ and reeking of ‘drink and lust’. Scott Fitzgerald suggested it was ‘utterly immoral’ and referenced it in The Great Gatsby.
The lives of writers and artists who settled in Tahiti in 1920s, brought together for the first time, and how Tahiti acquired its paradise island image through art and literature from the 1760s to 1920.