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It is late summer, late century, Oxford. Donovan O'Dwyer is dead, but for his fellow expatriate Mike Newall their shared past is still hauntingly alive.
Two Oxford dons, Newall and Winterstoke, attend their colleague's funeral. Afterward Newall reveals the secret that O'Dwyer took to the grave. During the Battle of Crete in World War II a Maori soldier died in circumstances that led to his family placing a curse on O'Dwyer. How did the soldier die? Why was O'Dwyer responsible? Gradually Newall tells all. But as he moves in space and time -- from his childhood in New Zealand to Crete, from Oxford to Croatia, reflecting on wartime and peacetime, and the generations that have lived through both -- it becomes clear that the story is not just O'Dwyer's, but Newall's as well.
C. K. Stead was Professor of English at the University of Auckland, and is well known among students of literature for The New Poetic, his study of Yeats, Eliot, and the Georgian poets. He is the author of nine novels and ten collections of poetry.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 232 pages.A new novel, about war and peace, and the contact b etween different cultures. The family of a Maori soldier killed i n Crete places a curse on Donovan O'Dwyer, a Pakeha officer. He b ecomes an Oxford don; at his funeral the curse's role in his life is revealed. And the life of Mike Newall (an NZer in Oxford) is touched as the narrative unfolds. Seller Inventory # 218b
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Book Description Condition: Good. A new novel, about war and peace, and the contact between different cultures. The family of a Maori soldier killed in Crete places a curse on Donovan O'Dwyer, a Pakeha officer. He becomes an Oxford don; at his funeral the curse's role in his life is revealed. And the life of Mike Newall (an NZer in Oxford) is touched as the narrative unfolds. 232 pages. Seller Inventory # 1194886