TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC Author:Michener "Truly one of the most remarkable books to come out of the war. Mr. Michener is a born story-teller." — THE NEW YORK TIMES — Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — Enter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the men and women caught up in the drama of a big war. The young Marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl... more ». Nurse Nellie and her French planter, Emile De Becque. The soldiers, sailors, and nurses playing at war and waiting for love in a tropic paradise.« less