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'In a valley deep in the highlands of New Guinea lives a small colony of Europeans. One of them is Kurt Sonderfield, a doctor with a shady past who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
N'Daria is a hauntingly beautiful native girl whom Sonderfield has trained in the art of seduction. Kumo is a young sorcerer who has fallen under Sonderfield's sway. Only two dare oppose Sonderfield: the old French missionary Pere Louis, and Gerda, the wife Sonderfield has betrayed.
'As the passions and power plays of the Europeans collide with ancient highland magic, the beat of the kundu drums thunders through the valley, bringing the story to an explosive climax.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (Allen & Unwin, 2017).
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- Sound recording.
- Braille.
Works about this Work
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New Guinea Novel
1957
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 5 June vol. 78 no. 4034 1957; (p. 59)
— Review of Kundu : A Novel 1956 single work novel
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New Guinea Novel
1957
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 5 June vol. 78 no. 4034 1957; (p. 59)
— Review of Kundu : A Novel 1956 single work novel
Last amended 19 Mar 2020 11:03:46
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cPapua New Guinea,cPacific Region,
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cPapua New Guinea,cPacific Region,
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