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A lively and exotic adventure novel, thronging with picaresque
characters, raucous magic and unfamiliar customs.
characters, raucous magic and unfamiliar customs.
Book Description
In Jakarta, Sam Rivers is all set to marry his Indonesian
love, Fon. But life takes an odd turn when, against her advice, he goes
into business with Pak Suryono to smuggle a semi-human creature from the
archipelago to Australia.
Madness? Yes, but typical of a white man. His behaviour in Kenukecil is no
surprise to its people, nor are his peculiar companions - including
disgraced returnee Pak Wim and the flame-haired, husband-seeking Dr
Aletheia Groeber, bestselling American author of anthropology tome "Fuck
The Savages". All of which helps explain the island's popular prayer: "May
both God and the ancestors protect us, for here comes another one."
love, Fon. But life takes an odd turn when, against her advice, he goes
into business with Pak Suryono to smuggle a semi-human creature from the
archipelago to Australia.
Madness? Yes, but typical of a white man. His behaviour in Kenukecil is no
surprise to its people, nor are his peculiar companions - including
disgraced returnee Pak Wim and the flame-haired, husband-seeking Dr
Aletheia Groeber, bestselling American author of anthropology tome "Fuck
The Savages". All of which helps explain the island's popular prayer: "May
both God and the ancestors protect us, for here comes another one."
While Sam succumbs to malarial fevers his strange cargo escapes to rampage
among the local young women, much to their delight. With angry fathers on
the hunt, demanding blood, can Sam find the short man before it's too
late?
About the Author
WILL BUCKINGHAM studied Fine Arts before running away to
Indonesia to research sculpture in the Spice Islands. While in Indonesia he
spent most of his time in the Tanimbar islands, where his research took him
into even stranger territory as he suffered malarial fevers, witchcraft,
exorcism and various idiosyncratic forms of folk medicine.
Indonesia to research sculpture in the Spice Islands. While in Indonesia he
spent most of his time in the Tanimbar islands, where his research took him
into even stranger territory as he suffered malarial fevers, witchcraft,
exorcism and various idiosyncratic forms of folk medicine.
He returned to the UK to study anthropology and then philosophy. He
now lives in Birmingham where he is writing his second novel and completing
a PhD in the philosophy of storytelling.
