An Oxford ethnologist, Leonard, travels to Papua in 1968 with his young Dutch wife, Rika, to take up a post at the university, and to further his research by filming the local Papuans in a remote village. Conservative and well-meaning, Leonard wants his camera to capture moments but not to effect any change. But this is Papua at the dawning of Independence and everything is change. Rika forms a close knit circle of friends within the university and the town. Laedi, a hafkast, and wife of the ambitious Don; Martha, a student trying to find her own identity; and Milton, a writer who wants to emulate his hero, the author James Baldwin. But it is the two Papuan brothers Aaron and Jacob, whom Rika is most drawn to. Thirty years later, a young art historian, Jericho, travels from London to Sydney to ask Martha to write the story of his parents and his heritage.
Title: The Mountain
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Drusilla Modjeska
ISBN 13: 9781741666502
ISBN 10: 1741666503
Publisher: Random House Australia
Imprint: Vintage (Australia)
Publication Date: 1/05/2012
Place of Publication:
Milsons Point,
Australia
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern fiction
Dewey Classification:
A823.4
(DC23)
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Height: 234mm
Width: 158mm
Thickness: 33mm
Weight: 550g