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Arima Publishing, United Kingdom, 2007. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Book Publisher Marketing: In the seclusion of pre-independent and post-independent Papua New Guinea, we find a group of expatriates, from an eclectic yet progressive Dutch priest to the money grabbing John Pietro. Among them is James Ward, an Australian Malaria Control Officer in the East Sepik District where this story begins. James Ward, in confronting his own values and those of the New Guineans, is on a humorous path of life, at once real and imagined. Tortured by religious scruples and sexual desires, James's life becomes a trajectory of impulses and aspirations without lasting resolutions. In this novel, the many personalities are scrutinised, as it were, in a fishbowl, exposing the traits and attributes that distinguish them in their frontier society. Some cope and endure, while others simply enjoy life. They are at times like the haughty and elusive cassowary or muruk of the jungle; at other times,…
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- Title Sepik Blu Longpela Muruk
- Author David Wall
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 184
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Swirl
- Date 2007-01
- ISBN 9781845491680 / 1845491688
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.39 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 0.99 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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