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1 y separately published work icon Kundu; Nacktes Land; Der Schatz der Dona Lucia; Die Konkubine : vier romane in einem band Morris West , ( trans. Klaus Boer et. al. )agent)expression Munich : Ullstein , 2000 Z1395404 2000 selected work novel
8 1 y separately published work icon Kundu : A Novel Morris West , ( trans. Klaus Boer with title Kundu: Roman ) Düsseldorf : Econ Taschenbuch Verlag , 1983 Z528050 1956 single work novel

'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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