[1] Orotaloa has published two books, the novel Two Times Resurrection (1989) and the story collection Suremada: Faces from a Solomon Island Village (1985).
His writing blends the European-style literary short story with the traditional oral folk tales of his islands, and often uses creolized English.
[1] Two Times Resurrection is one of the few novels to emerge from the Solomon Islands literary community (along with John Saunana's The Alternative), which has generally produced short stories.
"[4] In the journal World Literature Today, Stephen Oxenham wrote that the novel's "fusion of oral and literary convention gives it a peculiar power and charm".
"[2] Samoan poet and writer Albert Wendt, in Nuanua: Pacific Writing in English Since 1980, praised Orotaloa's "complex storytelling style" and use of traditional mythology and oral literary techniques.