originally censored by its british publisher the beach at fales is a scathing critique of colonialism and economic imperialism that bravely takes on many of the 19th century s strongest taboos miscegenation imperialism and economic exploitation it does so with a story that features a surprising and beguiling romance between an adventurous british trader and a young island girl against a background of increasingand mysterioushostility are the native islanders plotting against the couple or is it the other white traders the result is a denouement that is astonishing in its violence told in the unadorned voice of the trader it is a story that deftly combines the form of the exotic adventure yarn with the moral and psychological questing of great fiction