Author: Julia Blackburn Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction
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ISBNs: 9780679758372 0679758372 |
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In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping our fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse that strikes first his dark-skinned wife, then his son and grandson. But is the curse supernatural--or a white man's guilty fascination with an alien new world? "A hypnotic, cryptic, haunting exploration of the power of memory."--Boston Globe.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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