Pacific Writers' Series

The 1940s in Papua: foreign planes scorch the tropical vegetation, rain clouds gather above the villages, and Hoiri Sevese knows he must avenge himself on the sorcerers who have caused his wife to be taken by a crocodile.

Hoiri, in confronting the darkness of colonial rule, must come to terms with the strange and brutalising ways of the Europeans. But first, he must come to terms with himself, and the crocodile...