Some novels excite us by offering a
penetrating vision of our everyday life.
Others, more rare, caativate us in the
opposite way--they take us to new
worlds and open our eyes to ways of
life we have scarcely conceived of.
Palu is one of these books.
It is the story of a woman whose life is
touched with a dark magic. Palu is born
into a remote hill tribe on a large Pacific
island. She is just a child when, breaking
the tribal taboo, she enters the sairit hut
and meets the alligator demon. But the
consequences of her acl. violent and
tragic, will follow her always. Her ove
affair with Emo, a brilliant youth born to
lead his people, brings her to Australia,
and then back to her homeland as it
struggles for national independence.
But when Emo--frustrated by the
struggle to bring Western democracy to
his tribal culture--begins ro change
from leader to despot, the egends that
cling to Palu make her his enemy. She is
fated to meet the demons again.
This is a remarkable novel, strange
and intoxicating, t captures, as no
journalistic effort could, the feeling of a
land where modern politics confronts
ancient gods.
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